332487 - Absolutely positioned pseudo-elements are treated as inline.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 238072

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Rafal Milecki]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.00 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050702

Acording to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#q24 absolutely positioned element should be displayed as block. Mozilla ignores width of pseudo-element with { position: absolute; }.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Pseudo-element has width of contained text.

Expected Results:  
Pseudo-element should has width set in CSS (300px on page from URL).

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Attachment: testcase from reporter's URL

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

BTW: Your Mozilla build is quite old, consider upgrading to SeaMonkey 1.0 or something similar.

Comment 3

[Erik Fabert]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 238072 ***