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HTML Oddities: Is a newline just another whitespace in attribute values?

Summary by Terence Eden’s Blog
Consider these two HTML elements: … … Is there any semantic difference between them? Is there any way to target one but not the other? In other words, are they logically different? I think the answer is no. On every browser I've tested, both are the same. Whether using JS or CSS, there's no difference between them. You could replace every \n with a and nothing would break. But is that true for every attribute? Are there some attributes where a n…
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Terence Eden’s Blog broke the news in on Sunday, April 27, 2025.
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