131533 - inline elements ignore width and height css definitions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50626

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect)

Description

[Ralf Vitasek]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

<b style="height:50px; width:200px; background: green;">EXAMPLE</b>

all width an height definitions are ignored unless you explicitly declare the
alement "display: block;"



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a html page
2. insert <b style="height:50px; width:200px; background: green;">EXAMPLE</b>
3. open the page using mozilla

Actual Results:  element ignores the width and height definitions

Expected Results:  element should reflect the width and size as defined in the
style-attribute.

compare that examples behavior to Internet-Explorer

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

This is just invalid.

see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visudet.html#propdef-width 
"width does not apply to non-replaced inline-level elements."

IExplorer does it wrong.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

VERIFIED. I believe IE do this right in strict mode, too.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50626 ***