[css‑text‑4] Consider renaming text‑wrap: nowrap to text‑wrap: no‑wrap

[ExE-Boss]

See the first point of the List of Legacy Mistakes in the Design of CSS.

I don’t think we should repeat that mistake again.

[Loirooriol]

Too many sites rely on nowrap, it can't be changed. Adding no-wrap as an alias would be possible, but was already rejected in #1537. Do you have new arguments to reconsider that resolution?

[ExE-Boss]

This isn’t about white‑space, this is about the new CSS Text 4 text‑wrap property, which no engines are shipping yet.

[frivoal]

text-wrap is a longhand of white-space though, so nowrap is the same keyword with the same meaning. Shorthand/longhand relationships are flexible enough that we could map nowrap in one to no-wrap in the other, but that seems very confusing to me.

[ExE-Boss]

@frivoal Well, if #5382 is accepted, then it will make distinguishing the <white‑space‑legacy> nowrap value from the <'text‑wrap'> no‑wrap value much easier.

[fantasai]

I'm very certain that we are not going to rename nowrap to no-wrap, simply for consistency with white-space and flex-wrap. At most we would add an alias--for all instances of nowrap.

[tabatkins]

Yes, we're currently consistently bad with nowrap, which sucks, but it's better than some properties having nowrap and others having no-wrap. Accepting both would be ideal.