<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>CSS Test: White-space and non white space control characters</title>
<link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />
<link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#ctrlchars" />
<link rel="help" href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#white-space-processing"/>
<meta name="flags" content="ahem" />
<meta name="assert" content="White space processing model does not affect non white space control characters, in this case the 'Start of string' character." />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/fonts/ahem.css" />
<style type="text/css">
div
{
font: 20px/1 Ahem;
}
#div1
{
white-space: normal;
}
span
{
background: black;
}
#div2
{
background: blue;
height: 1em;
width: 5em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Test passes if the black box is the same width or wider than the blue box.</p>
<div id="div1"><span>X ˜ XX</span></div>
<div id="div2"></div>
</body>
</html>