108715 - width on span not used

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 50626

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

on http://gemal.dk/test/news.html
I have a span that is set to width: 150px via CSS but Mozilla doesn't seem to 
respect that. IE renders the span at width 150 but Mozilla just ignores the 
width.

20011106

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

CSS2 section 10.3.1 says 'width' and 'height' don't apply to non-replaced inline
elements.

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

really...?
it validates as correct css at css validator..:)

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

any clues what I can use if I want:
<span>test</span><span>test2</span>

and want test and test2 to be 100px width
?

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

It's perfectly valid.  It just doesn't do anything.  The CSS validator would
have to do the complete cascade and all of selector matching to warn about this
situation.  Consider:

.foo {
  width: 150px;
}

span {
  display: inline;
}

<span class="foo">Hi!</span>

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You likely want inline-block instead of inline for display.  Unfortunately,
support for inline-block is rather slim so far....

Comment 6

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50626 ***