110064 - XUL boxes take max-height of children, regardless of !important

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Colin Phillips]

No matter what I try to do, I cannot seem to make a textbox and button be
different heights when inside the same <box>.  Look at the following code:

      <box style="min-height:100px !important;">
         <textbox style="max-height:10px;"/>
         <button label="i am tall" style="min-height:100px;"/>
      </box>

What should be happening is the box should be 100px in height with a 10px high
textbox on the left and a 100px high button on the right.  What I end up getting
is a box that is 10px high with all of it's children also 10px high.

Comment 1

[David Hyatt]

This is not a bug.  You need to read up on box-align.  hbox doesn't pay any
attention to height values when align is set to stretch (which is the default).
 If you change the value of align, then the height values will be honored.

Comment 2

[David Hyatt]

marking invalid.

Comment 3

[Colin Phillips]

:)  You're quite right.  I had actually read that, and I thought I tried that,
but I guess I was doing something very silly.

Anyways, thanks!