Flag: a plain wide column, the twin of the next two

Reading copy set across a column this wide asks the eye to travel a long way back to the start of every line, and after a few lines of it a reader starts to lose their place. The measure is what a designer sets with a max-width on the text block, and this block sets none at all, so every line runs the full width of the column it sits in from one edge to the other.

Flag: a wide column that also carries an inline style child

Reading copy set across a column this wide asks the eye to travel a long way back to the start of every line, and after a few lines of it a reader starts to lose their place. The measure is what a designer sets with a max-width on the text block, and this block sets none at all, so every line runs the full width of the column it sits in from one edge to the other.

Flag: a wide column written with source indentation

Reading copy set across a column this wide asks the eye to travel a long way back to the start of every line, and after a few lines of it a reader starts to lose their place. The measure is what a designer sets with a max-width on the text block, and this block sets none at all, so every line runs the full width of the column it sits in from one edge to the other.

Flag: preserved white space is on the line

Reading copy set across a column this wide asks the eye to travel a long way back to the start of every line, and after a few lines of it a reader starts to lose their place. The measure is what a designer sets with a max-width on the text block, and this block sets none at all, so every line runs the full width.

Flag: the same preserved white space in a span inside a normal paragraph

Reading copy set across a column this wide asks the eye to travel a long way back to the start of every line, and after a few lines of it a reader starts to lose their place. The measure is what a designer sets with a max-width on the text block, and this block sets none at all, so every line runs the full width.

Pass: a plain 560px measure, the twin of the next four

A paragraph held to a comfortable measure wraps long before the eye has far to travel back, and this one keeps to about seventy characters a line.

Pass: a 560px measure with an inline style child

A paragraph held to a comfortable measure wraps long before the eye has far to travel back, and this one keeps to about seventy characters a line.

Pass: a 560px measure with a hidden child and a script child

A paragraph held to a comfortable measure wraps long before the eye has far to travel back, with a long run of words that a script reveals later and that take up no part of any line until then, however many of them there are in the source of the page, and this one keeps to about seventy characters a line.

Pass: a 560px measure with a content-visibility: hidden child

A paragraph held to a comfortable measure wraps long before the eye has far to travel back, with a long run of words that waits off screen for a reveal and takes up no part of any line until then, however many of them there are in the source, and this one keeps to about seventy characters a line.

Pass: a 560px measure written with deep source indentation

A paragraph held to a comfortable measure wraps long before the eye has far to travel back, and this one keeps to about seventy characters a line.