[css-text] Styling of soft hyphens

[frivoal]

If you put a span around a ­ style it (for example, change the color), and the word does get hyphenated (due to the hyphens property being manual or auto and running out of space on the line), does the style get applied to the visible hyphen that gets inserted, or not?

The spec currently doesn't say.

As shown in this example, all browsers (FF, Chrome, Safari) do apply the style of the span around the soft hyphen onto the inserted hyphen, so I think it would make sense to spec it that way.

[tabatkins]

Agreed, it should, both from a theory standpoint and, luckily, from a impl-compat standpoint. ^_^

[fantasai]

That hyphen is represented by the U+00AD codepoint, so yes, that is what should happen. I think this would just be a clarification, tbh.

[css-meeting-bot]

The CSS Working Group just discussed Styling of soft hyphens, and agreed to the following:

• RESOLVED: Add this to the spec

The full IRC log of that discussion

<dael> Topic: Styling of soft hyphens
<dael> github: https://github.com//issues/3863
<dael> florian: rying to write tests around this. Spec wasn't clear how the soft hyphens are styled. Does a span change the color of the hyphen? Spec is silent. Impl are interop where if line isn't breaking you style span as an empty span. When line does hypehanate it behaves as if span was around actual hyphenation character. Makes sense, has interop, like to spec
<dael> fantasai: Happy to add as clarification. I'm pretty sure that codepoint represents visible glyph. Can't lookup unicode right now
<dael> florian: I think it says you may want to tailor to language. There's some level of smart to what you insert. Not clear it falls out. but if we clarify this is what we want doesn't matter to me
<dael> Rossen_: Other opinions?
<dael> TabAtkins: Agree completely
<dael> Rossen_: Objections?
<dael> RESOLVED: Add this to the spec