[whatwg] whitespace compression in document.title

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sun Aug 17 19:19:15 PDT 2008


On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
> IE7, FF3 and Opera 9.51 compress whitespace when getting document.title. 
> \t and \n (at least) are converted to spaces, runs of consecutive spaces 
> are compressed to a single space, and leading and trailing spaces are 
> stripped. Safari 3.1 follows the spec and does none of this.

Do you mean for the purposes of the interface? Or in the API?

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