Trailing space inside style tag

This one has trailing space inside the tag

The quick brown <strong>fox jumps </strong>over the lazy d开发者_如何转开发og

where, this has not.

The quick brown <strong>fox jumps</strong> over the lazy dog

The thing is, <strong/> tag works ok, the space doesn't get bolded, but the problem comes with underlines.

The quick brown <u>fox jumps </u>over the lazy dog

results in a underline applied to space, which doesn't seem very "correct" to me.

But the reason why I'm asking this, is because, by default, when you select (double-click) a word within text, the trailing space is always taken into selection (at least on Windows). And that results in a wrongly applied underline.

So, which is more correct?

Thanks in advance!

Windows' selection algorithm is horribly broken - i'm coming up against this problem all the time with users of our CMS. Do you want that space underlined? Probably not. Therefore, the former is 'correct'.

You have to remember that a "whitespace" is a character so when you leave a space between a word inside a tag, that whitespace also inherits the property that you're trying to apply.

Here is a breakdown on how whitespace is set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character