[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27762: Remove whitespace between menu items

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#27762: Remove whitespace between menu items
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 Reporter:  obenland      |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Menus         |    Version:  3.0
 Severity:  minor         |   Keywords:  needs-patch good-first-bug
  Focuses:                |
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 To position nav menus horizontally, developers have to resort to
 [https://href.li/?http://www.vanseodesign.com/css/inline-blocks/ the
 floating hack] to avoid spacing between menu items. The spacing is caused
 by line breaks after each menu element (`li`s). They were introduced in
 r14248 to create readable markup (I assume),
 [https://cloudup.com/cRyUUXHv4Tw which is very inconsistent today].

 This might break visual backwards compatibility for themes that are using
 inline-block and count on the whitespace to provide spacing between menu
 items. Which should be an extreme edge case, since
 [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.8.2/src/wp-includes/post-
 template.php#L930 there is no whitespace in the default fallback],
 `wp_page_menu()`.

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