Bug 216963

Summary:

::first-letter should include preceding punctuation and space separators

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Johannes Odland <johannes.odland>

Component:

Layout and Rendering

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED DUPLICATE

Severity:

Normal

CC:

bfulgham, gsnedders, jensimmons, johannes.odland, simon.fraser, webkit-bug-importer, zalan

Priority:

Keywords:

BrowserCompat, InRadar

Version:

Safari 14

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Attachments:

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Description Johannes Odland 2020-09-24 23:31:12 PDT

Created attachment 409660 [details]
Screen shot from example

Characters in the P* category and intervening space separators should be included in the ::first-letter pseudo element: 

 
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-pseudo-4/#first-letter-pseudo
> Punctuation (i.e, characters that belong to the Punctuation (P*) Unicode general category [UAX44]) that precedes or follows the first typographic letter unit and any intervening space separators (characters that belong to the Zs Unicode general category [UAX44]) must also be included in the ::first-letter pseudo-element.



Steps to reproduce: 

1. Go to https://codepen.io/johannesodland/pen/LYGYWyY

Expected result: 
The second ::first-letter pseudo element should contain "« V"
The third ::first-letter pseudo element should contain "– P"

Actual result: 
The third ::first-letter pseudo element only contain "–"

Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2020-10-01 23:33:31 PDT

<rdar://problem/69870767>

Comment 2 Jen Simmons 2021-01-13 09:48:04 PST

The CSSWG is refining the specification of how exactly the ::first-letter selection algorithm works. Example: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5830

Once the updates to the specification are complete, Webkit will need to be updated to comply.

Comment 3 Sam Sneddon [:gsnedders] 2021-08-11 04:39:04 PDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 179815 ***