235756 - Fieldset is wider than the width applied to it

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[XFox]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

When I create a fieldset of some width such as 400px by using CSS, the width is
incorrect. You can compare it with a 400px table.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
fieldset is about 20px too wide

Expected Results:  
The fieldset should be the same size as I specify

Also reproducable in Firefox 0.8

Comment 1

[XFox]

Attachment: Size comparison between same width fieldset and table

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

also seen on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:) Gecko/20040226

seems like the fieldset is about 24 pix too wide, compared to a <hr> of same
specified width, tested with 200 and 400 pix.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The fieldset has padding and a border set in the UA stylesheet.  So the
rendering is correct.