316335 - text-transform:capitalize sometimes fails to capitalize words at the start of a tag

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Johan Sundström]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

<style type="text/css">
li { display:inline; text-transform:capitalize; }
</style>
[...]
<ul><li>first</li><li>second</li><li>n:th</li></ul>

renders as "First", "second", "n:th", not expected "First", "Second", "N:th".
The bug seems tied to the combination of display:inline and text-transform:capitalize, and somehow relate to whitespace, because if the first style is removed, or a space character is inserted before the text that ought to have been rendered uppercase, the problem goes away.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit test case URL

Comment 1

[Johan Sundström]

And, as pointed out in the testcase page, in a less stripped-down real-world case, the exact opposite behaviour has been seen too -- first, Second, N:th -- see here:
http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/10/spoil-yourself-with-adblock.html

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Testcase URI is not resolving.  Please attach the testcase to the bug.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Attachment: reporter's testcase

Resolves for me, this minute, anyway.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Seems invalid to me, though: having made li inline, and with no whitespace, it might just as well be <b>f</b><em>i</em><strong>r</strong><i>st</i>, which looks like one word to me, with the margin-left in the test case or not.

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Yep, it's all one word.  Thanks for catching that.