Non-standard: This feature is not standardized. We do not recommend using non-standard features in production, as they have limited browser support, and may change or be removed. However, they can be a suitable alternative in specific cases where no standard option exists.
Note: In Selectors Level 4, the :empty selector was changed to act like :-moz-only-whitespace, but no browser currently supports this yet.
The :-moz-only-whitespace CSS pseudo-class matches elements that only contain text nodes that only contain whitespace. (This includes elements with empty text nodes and elements with no child nodes.)
:-moz-only-whitespace {
/* ... */
}
<div> </div>
div {
border: 4px solid red;
}
:-moz-only-whitespace {
border-color: lime;
}
Briefly defined as :blank in Selectors Level 4, but then the functionality was merged into :empty and :blank redefined to mean empty <input>.
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
:-moz-only-whitespace |
No | No | 1 | No | No | No | 4 | No | No | No | No | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:-moz-only-whitespace