[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #35206: Allow theme authors to control white space between menu items

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#35206: Allow theme authors to control white space between menu items
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 Reporter:  peterwilsoncc                 |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Menus                         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-unit-tests needs-patch  |     Focuses:  template
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Comment (by afercia):

 Replying to [comment:5 peterwilsoncc]:
 > * have `wp_nav_menu` remain whitespace consistent when it falls back to
 the page listing (they currently differ)
 Yep, this was one of the concerns that #27762 tried to address. Totally
 agree these two functions should have a consistent white space handling :)
 For example, the CSS hack mentioned in #35107 to have justified menu items
 won't work when the menu fallbacks to `wp_page_menu()`.

 About the second issue, yes [https://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-
 between-inline-block-elements/ there are a number of ways to fight white
 space using CSS only], including using Flexbox, but they all have
 drawbacks. It's almost 2016 and still the only reliable way to do this is
 controlling the markup output, waiting for [http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-
 text-4/#white-space-collapsing white-space-collapsing in CSS4].

 Software should make things easy and solve this kind of issues for you, so
 I'd agree with @peterwilsoncc about introducing a simple way (maybe an
 argument?) to remove white space.

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