159666 - Is handling of relative image widths correct?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97695

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[Jörg M. Sigle]

When I use HTML code that shall display multiple images in a single line which
each have the same width which is computed as a certain percentages of available
display width, the resulting display shows each succeeding image smaller than
its predecessor. I guess that when Gecko interprets something like  img ...
width="20%", it probably computes the available width from something like the
space between the current drawing position and the right border of the display
space just before it evaluates the current meaning of 20%. This has occured with
any Gecko browser I've tested over the last months, on Linux and Windows, and it
is in contrast to what other browsers (Netscape 4, Opera, StarOffice, Internet
Explorer, and, most probably, Lynx :-) ) do. An example is given on the page
listed above. Inserting line brakes or new paragraphs after e.g. 4 images does
not help. I've also tried to use a table, 1 field per row, 4 images per field,
same result. I've not tried a table with 4 fields per row, 1 image per field
because I would not like that approach elsewhere on my site. Is my HTML wrong or
can Gecko be improved? Best wishes, Joerg.

Comment 1

[gavin long]

This looks an awful lot like bug 97695

Comment 2

[Michael Lefevre]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97695 ***