215996 - span does not follow style width

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 34415

(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, defect)

Description

[Andriy Rysin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

<table border=1><tr><td style="background-color: blue;
width:200px">&nbsp;</td></tr></table>
SPAN: <span style="background-color: red; width:200px">&nbsp;</span>

td will always be 200px while span will always be as small as possible

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open test case
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Actual Results:  
span is as small as &nbsp;

Expected Results:  
span sould be 200px wide

Comment 1

[Andriy Rysin]

Attachment: span style width fails

Comment 2

[Adam Hauner]

Span element is in HTML *inline* at default. You can't set width for inline
elements.

If you want to set its width, you have to set its display property to block (or
similar value), for example this way:

<span style="background-color:red;width:200px;display:block">&nbsp;</span>

Read more about width property:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visudet.html#propdef-width

Marking as INVALID.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

verified.

Comment 4

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

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