Fine grained typography control

[stubbornella]

Description

Developers would like to remove the vertical space appearing above and below text glyphs, allowing more precise positioning and alignment. And also, to allow the container to trim the margins of its children where they adjoin the container's edges.
This proposal includes text-box-trim, text-box-edge, margin-trim, hanging punctuation, text-decoration shorthand, word-break, line-break, sideways-lr + sideways-rl, text-wrap-mode + text-wrap: stable + text-wrap-style.

Specification

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-box-4/#margin-trim

Additional Signals

No response

[meyerweb]

Supersets #730 and #781, possibly others.

[meyerweb]

Also supersets #814, possibly #832.

[jgraham]

Given that the process allow combining multiple proposals into one focus area would it be possible to restrict this proposal to anything that isn't in one of the other focus areas Eric identified?

[stubbornella]

This was a proposal for a focus area rather than individual properties, I think it could be good to have this be the umbrella, but I'm open to other solutions.

[meyerweb]

This was a proposal for a focus area rather than individual properties, I think it could be good to have this be the umbrella, but I'm open to other solutions.

Ah! Having this as an umbrella/bucket/group does make sense, and I support the idea. My apologies; both the individual things and the groups are tagged 'focus-area-proposal' so I didn’t pick up the distinction here.

[wpt-interop]

Thank you for proposing Fine grained typography control for inclusion in Interop 2025.

We wanted to let you know that this proposal was not selected to be part of Interop this year.

On behalf of the entire Interop team, thank you for submitting this proposal for consideration. We got many more proposals than we could include in this year's project, necessitating some difficult choices. Please note this should not be taken as a comment on the technology as a whole, or our willingness to consider it for Interop in the future. We appreciate the work you put into your proposal, and would welcome your participation in future rounds of Interop.

For an overview of our process, see proposal selection. Thank you again for contributing to Interop 2025.

Posted on behalf of the Interop team.