Re: IE11 and xml:space="preserve"

Erik Dahlström <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.svg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:24:26 +0200, Smailus, Thomas O  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm finding that IE11 doesn't honor the request to preserve whitespace
> OR
> the getBBox() function applied to text/tspan containing extra whitespace  
> is not computing the bounding box as expected (by giving the whitespace  
> content contributing extent)
>
> <tspan  font-family="arial" fill="rgb(0,0,0)"  font-size="2.02847"   
> >AIRSPEED - 111 TO 999 KCAS RECOMMENDED (NOT LESS THAN V     </tspan>
>
> Contained within the <text> element is reporting/rendering as if the  
> extra spaces after the "V" were not there or don't contribute to the  
> bounding box computation.
>
> The document has xml:space="preserve" declared in the <svg > tag
>
> As a work-around, I'm replacing all space characters with non-breaking  
> spaces, but that, as one can imagine, makes a mess of doing text  
> search/matching across the DOM.

That sounds painful.

Have you tried using "white-space: pre" instead of xml:space?

Testcase: http://jsfiddle.net/jhprc28v/

Cheers
/Erik
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