122865 - Css box width miscalculated for preformatted text, which overflows box

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P4)

Description

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

Given a preformatted text (one contained inside <pre>..</pre>), you can force
the css drawn box to be smaller than the text playing with your brosers' window
width.

The expected behaviour is to have the drawn box at least as wide as the
preformatted text, even if the browser's window is not wide enough to show the
whole preformatted text. Looks like IE 5.5 get's this right.

Comment 1

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

Attachment: Testcase

Modify your browser's window width to make it smaller and see the box rendered
incorrectly.

Comment 2

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

Attachment: Screen capture of the bug. Build 2001122108, 0.9.7, Linux, X.

Comment 3

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

Build 2002020415 still shows the bug.

Comment 4

[rubydoo123]

confirming the bug, setting to future, P4, already set to trivial

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The width of a block (which is what blockquote is) depends on its parent only,
not on its children. IE is implementing a weasel-hole in the CSS2 box model
which basically says that any horizontal size you want is OK regardless of the
CSS set on the element or any other criteria; that weasel hole is likely to be
removed from the upcoming CSS 2.1.