264692 - a specific HTML code isn't recognized

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ryu Anfini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I am building a website and I am using this html code: <span STYLE="width:
297">text here</span>
It works properly with my Internet Explorer and internet explorer based
browsers, but with Mozilla and Firefox (latest versions) it has no effect on the
text.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. make HTML file with <span STYLE="width: 297">Update#1 Update#1 Update#1
Update#1 Update#1 Update#1 Update#1 Update#1 Update#1 Update#1 Update#1 Update#1
</span>
2. Open file

Actual Results:  
The text is viewed normally while it should pose a break in the page after every
297 pixels across.

Expected Results:  
pose a break in the page after every 297 pixels across.

Comment 1

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

inline elements can't have a width. Note the "Applied to" part at
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#the-width-property (or the descriptive
text below).