203316 - SELECT elements honouring invalid attribute WIDTH

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

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Ug, I know I'm going to regret this.

I've searched for 'width select', and other assorted combinations in Bugzilla.

Anyways, with build 2003-04-24-12 (trunk, Windows 2000), and the attached
testcase, the selects aren't paying attention to the WIDTH attribute of the SELECT.

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Comment 1

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Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

The problem here is related to the presence of the 'width' attribute on the
'select' element in the markup. This is not a valid HTML 4.01 attribute on
a 'select' element **but** apparently gecko honours it setting, in the current
test case, the width of the element to 10 'something' where something is px or %,
I did not test.

This is a bug and we should ignore that width attribute.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

I can imagine the stream of bug-reports :-)

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yeah, well.  This is already filed, and even has at least one dup other than
this one.  roc+moz is probably the assignee.  Please find and dup.

Comment 5

[Sterling Bates]

I think it's 201797.  Here, the reporter doesn't acknowledge the WIDTH 
attribute as invalid, so maybe that should be confirmed in that bug :)

Comment 6

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Fixed by bug 201797, I believe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201797 ***

Comment 7

[Sterling Bates]

No, this was not fixed, even with bug 201797 checked into 1.4b.  Testcase still
breaks (note that there's no horiz scrollbar), and the WIDTH attribute is still
honored.  I can't reopen, but I think it should be.

Comment 8

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Dang.  You're right.  My testcase is broken, but the site works... they must've
changed their code.  Reopening.

Comment 9

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 205014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Sterling Bates]

OK, now the testcase works in build 20030523...did someone fix this?

Comment 11

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Robert O'Callahan must've, but I'm not sure the bug #.

Comment 12

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

wfm

Comment 13

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

verified with build 2004-06-29-08 on Windows XP.