108649 - rendering problem

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Gabriel Bouvigne]

http://www.mp3-tech.org/gloss/glosa.html

On the top left of this page, I can see a black glitch with 0.9.5.
It seems to be caused by "<span class="glosspage"></span>" near the beginning 
of the HTML code.
You can see that http://www.mp3-tech.org/gloss/glosb.html does not show this 
bug because it doesn't include the same "<span class="glosspage"></span>"

Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

Confirming on 2001102603 Win2k.

Comment 2

[Markus Gerstel]

Confirming with 2001110516.

But why is this a bug ? Definition is :

.glosspage {  border-color: #000000 black black; color: #000000; border-style:
dashed}

And there is an empty <span> with a dashed border around it.... This is a
problem for the author of the page. If it isn't intended then the <span>-tags
shouldn't be there. It is not a Mozilla problem.

Comment 3

[Gabriel Bouvigne]

So you think that an empty <span></span> should apply the style?

We'll I didn't thinked in this case the style should be applied. But if it's 
the case, I sincerely apologise.

Comment 4

[Markus Gerstel]

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#h-7.5.4
states nothing about empty <span>'s.
My guess is that it makes no difference if the tag is empty or contains other
tags or text.

If you want an answer from a CSS/HTML programmer (ie you can rely on =) feel
free to leave this bug open (or ask in #mozilla), otherwise please resolve this
bug invalid.

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

CSS2 Section 10.8: Empty inline elements generate empty inline boxes, but these
boxes still have margins, padding, borders and a line height, and thus influence
these calculations just like elements with content.

Comment 6

[Markus Gerstel]

Thanks Hixie