260554 - style="width:40px;overflow:hidden;" doesn't work as (what I) expected

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Vincent Pennec]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

<span style="width:40px;overflow:hidden;white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid
black">some long text here</span>

displays
[some long text here]


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
displays only the very first letters because of the style="width:40px" statement

IE 6.0 displays it as expected

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

This doesn't seem to be the case for inline elements... 'width' doesn't apply to
them. However, if you encountered this on block level elements, Mozilla is
correct and this bug is most likely invalid. Could you use "Create a New
Attachment" to attach a demonstration?

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

Invalid as written.  Width does not apply to inline span elements.  And this
testcase works fine if the span is set to display: block.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

indeed.