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Add pre-wrap value to the white-space CSS property #625

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@hzhu hzhu commented Jun 14, 2019

The CSS value pre-wrap was a use case in my day to day work and I would like to add it to Tachyons. I think it others might find it helpful too. In this use case, I would like to preserve white space, but also wrap text so it doesn't extend out pass containing <div>s.

Using pre, notice the text extends beyond the containing element:
Screen Shot 2019-06-14 at 12 42 50 PM

Using pre-wrap, notice the text wraps:
Screen Shot 2019-06-14 at 12 43 29 PM

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+1

pre-wrap value allows sequences of white space to be preserved. Also the lines
are broken at new line characters, at `<br>`, and as necessary to fill line
boxes.

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space#Values
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