Closed Bug 260615 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

background-color does not match text size within span tags

Categories

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
CSS Parsing and Computation
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 202942

People

(Reporter: geoffphillips, Assigned: dbaron)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Example page:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>Test</title></head>
<body>
<span style="background-color: red;">
<font style="font-size: 40pt;">SOME TEXT</font>
</span>
</body>
</html>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
View attached page

Actual Results:  
The background colour only covers the lower part of the text.

Expected Results:  
The background colour should cover all of the text

    
    

    
  
confirming Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040911
screen resolution 800x600

body has a margin of 8 px, otherwise margin/border/padding 0

DOM-Inspector Box Model 
box heigth: body 63, span 19, font 61

DOM-Inspector Computed Style
     height: body   63px, span   auto, font   auto
line height: body normal, span normal, font normal
font size  : body   16px, span   16px, font 53.3333px

    
    

    
  
This sounds INVALID.

The height of the outer span (inline element) is not determined by the height of
its children, but by the height of the font.

(There's a bit of an explanation with a similar example in bug 202942, and an
excerpt from the visual formatting model.)

    
    

    
  
This is invalid.  It's the same setup as bug 202942.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202942 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

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