178119 - Width and height style not applied to positioned <span> element

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 34415

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

Description

[Alan Batie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

A friend of mine is using style attribute in img tags to position a crosshair
image on a map image to show the location various pictures were taken.  The only
place it works correctly is with IE; Mozilla, even the latest 1.2b I just
downloaded, simply doesn't display either the map or the crosshairs at all.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the listed url
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Actual Results:  
The map/crossshairs were not displayed

Expected Results:  
To the left of the pictures on the page, should be a small picture of a map of
the island, with a red crosshair image overlaying it showing the location of the
picture to the right.

Comment 1

[Alan Batie]

Attachment: Screenshot of mozilla's incorrect rendering

Comment 2

[Alan Batie]

Attachment: Correct rendering by IE

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

<span style="position:relative;left:0px;top:0px;height:214px;width:187px">

Surely your friend means "<div>", not "<span>"?  Seeing as "height" and "width"
do not apply to spans by default (except in IE, which has a bug....).  Or you
could put the position:relative on the table cell itself...

I suspect that this is triggering a bug in out positioning with respect to
inlines code, but even if we were to fix that bug the page would not render like
it does in IE...

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

Attachment: Corrected Web page

This file works correctly in both MSIE and Mozilla (Well... almost.
If you look closely you will find anther rendering bug with MSIE :p)

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

-> INVALID

Per CSS standard specification, width and height do not apply to inline
element (<span>)

Reporter (Alan Batie), please file a bug report against this MSIE
behavior in Microsoft's bug system (or alternatively, spam MSIE
user support forums :p)

Comment 6

[Alan Batie]

Sorry about that, and thanks!

Comment 7

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34415 ***