188654 - border style not rendered on floating :first-letter pseudo-element

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103189

(Core :: Layout: Floats, defect)

Description

[cyril.pierron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021216
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021216

as described in section 2.4 of the CSS level 1 specification, the CSS border
properties should apply to the :first-letter pseudo element when its float
property is set (not defined as none). The test is very easy to reproduce on a
paragraph element using the following CSS rule :

p:first-letter {
	margin: 4px;
	border-width: thin;
	border-style: solid;
	border-color: black;
	padding: 4px;
	font-size: 28pt;
	float: left;
}

All the other properties are correctly handled but not the border ones.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a simple html page containing a paragraph element P (enter some text
between the paragraph tags)
2. attach to this page the following CSS rule :

p:first-letter {
	margin: 4px;
	border-width: thin;
	border-style: solid;
	border-color: black;
	padding: 4px;
	font-size: 28pt;
	float: left;
}

3. display / render the html page (check the test.html page attached)
Actual Results:  
all the properties are correctly rendered (font-size, margin, padding) but not
the border ones. I've tried several border-style, several ways to set the border
(as with border: thin solid red;)

Expected Results:  
Following the CSS level 1 specification section 2.4 the border properties should
apply to a :first-letter pseudo elements when its float property is set to left
or right. In such a case the element is considered block-level. Ever if Mozilla
is one of my favorite browser, for once check the result under IE 6.0 SP1.

Comment 1

[cyril.pierron]

Attachment: fault report test case

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103189 ***