Re: {% spaceless %} abuse (?)

On 6 juil. 2012, at 02:29, Micky Hulse <rgmicky@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Russell Keith-Magee
> <russell@keith-magee.com> wrote:
>> Good question. I'm not really sure *what* it's supposed to be used
>> for. Trimming whitespace to reduce page size is one possible use; the
>
> If you develop for IE6, there's the IE6 whitespace bug. One fix, that
> I know of, is to remove all whitespace around the HTML.
>
> I never use the spaceless tag myself, but just thought I would mention
> another way one could utilize the tag.
>

An other use case is that whitespace is significant in parts of HTML: in code blocks of course but also *between inline elements*. In that case, spaceless tends to be more maintainable than removing all white space by hand end getting a single huge line.

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