Components: remove "text-wrap: balance" fallback from Text#75089
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Should this be considered breaking change? 🤔
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To me, this change seems like a bug fix.
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Thanks for the PR!
I think this change makes sense to me. Pinging @WordPress/gutenberg-components for visibility
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What?
Spin off from #74907
Removes the
text-wrap: balancefallback from theTextcomponent. The component now uses onlytext-wrap: prettywithout theSafariFirefox fallback.The code says it was Safari fallback, but actually it's Firefox which doesn't support
pretty:Why?
During discussion in PR #74907 about removing
text-wrap: balancefallbacks, it was noted that theTextcomponent also includes this fallback pattern. Thetext-wrap: balancefallback was originally added for Safari compatibility.balancecreates visually more opinionated layout compared topretty, which pretty much only handles typographic orphans. Balance is causing issues with non-Latin languages like Japanese:text-wrap: balance)text-wrap: balance)How?
The
Textcomponent now only includestext-wrap: pretty.Testing Instructions
Text(like labels, descriptions, etc.) still renders correctly without any visual regressions. You can browse Site editor pages to see it in action.Testing Instructions for Keyboard
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