228961 - TEXTAREA CSS WIDTH not inheriting (as it once was)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Darryl C.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20031219 Firebird/0.7+ (Oxs G7 SSE optimized)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20031219 Firebird/0.7+ (Oxs G7 SSE optimized)

in this page http://sn0rkb0x.flatlinesystems.net/~dclarke/textarea.php the text
area should expand to the width of the div as specified by the CSS 'width:
inherit;' this once worked but was broken somewhere along the lines.

a screen shot; http://sn0rkb0x.flatlinesystems.net/~dclarke/busted.jpg shows the
behaviour with an older version and the current behaviour.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use width: inherit; in any textarea's CSS.
Actual Results:  
the textarea is rendered to the size of the specified cols/rows, or just default
if they are not present.

Expected Results:  
expanded the to fit the parent object.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This was a change made to CSS2.1. If you want the width to fill the container,
use width: 100%. In CSS2.1, you are inheriting 'auto' so you get width:auto.