> pretty straight forward Anything but. It combines whitespace collapsing and text wrapping in one property and makes a mess of both. See https://drafts.csswg

> pretty straight forward Anything but. It combines whitespace collapsing and text wrapping in one property and makes a mess of both. See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#white-space-property https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#white-space-property to get an idea of how complicated it is. The MDN article is self-contradictory, e.g. note how the example don't match the "syntax" section. Plus, it has inconsistent quirks with HTML textarea.