102016 - right-aligned text is offset from edge of container by letter-spacing

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect, P4)

Description

[Chris Waterson]

Spun off from bug 58384. Right-aligned text with letter-spacing is offset from
the right edge of its container by exactly one unit of letter spacing (instead
of being flush).

Comment 1

[Chris Waterson]

Attachment: test case

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 137396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[lancer]

Attachment: an example of the case "text-align: center;"

!!!!

Comment 4

[lancer]

Mozilla seems to add the spacing 'after' each character, and that is why the
last character of the line has the spacing too, which i believe it is the
problem here.
Then I believe, the spacing must be added 'between' the characters, as the w3c
specification say it

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#propdef-letter-spacing

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

This needs to be fixed sometime before the end of the world (currently
02/01/2019).  It was messing up my announcement of doom at
http://www.blakeross.com/, and I had to lamely work around it.

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 172072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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Comment 8

[Mihai Bazon]

Blake, if that's the case, I really wish end of the world comes sooner. ;-)