160837 - css white-space and width don't work together

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Macarie Neculai]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; ro-Ro; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072104

the width of the paragraph is taken from the value specified rather from the
text itself when using white-space property.

The text with "white-space:nowrap;width=200px" and the text with
"white-space:pre;width=200px" should have the same bounding box as the other,
without the width property.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Macarie Neculai]

Attachment: Testcase for bug 160837

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> the width of the paragraph is taken from the value specified rather from the
> text itself when using white-space property.

Yep.  That's exactly what's supposed to happen.  If you specify a width, the
paragraph should be that width (assuming you also specify min-width, that is;
there is some weasel-room for a useragent to just make up a min-width if it's
not specified).

Comment 3

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

Reporter: MSIE reads 'width' as 'min-width', that causes this difference. If you
set both Mozilla will behave as IE.