258532 - Font property not taken in account when containing only one element

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement)

Description

[Jean-Sébastien Girard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

The shorthand "Font" property will not be taken in account if it only contain
one property. While this is technically correct ("font" should always contain
more than one property), it'd be fine if it could read it even when it only
contain one.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set a "Font" with only one property

Actual Results:  
the property is ignored

Expected Results:  
The property should/could have been taken in account.

Comment 1

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

I assume you're talking about the CSS 'font' property.  CSS has very clear rules
about error handling.

Comment 2

[Jean-Sébastien Girard]

I'm probably wrong, but besides the CSS validator, I can't find anythigng in the
specs that says explicitely it is illegal to have a single property in a
shorthand one.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

CSS2.1 Section 15.8 Value line.