Why isn't `white-space` consistent between IE and Firefox?

问题

I have <span class="text">11-12.SL.1 Some long text</span> where text has the following styles applied:

clear: left;
display: inline;
white-space: nowrap;
word-wrap: normal;

IE however, doesn't respect the white-space parameter.

vs Firefox, which respects it properly.

How can I get IE to respect it?

回答1:

Turns out I needed to propagate the white-space up to the parents =)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7014004/why-isnt-white-space-consistent-between-ie-and-firefox