269587 - <pre> not respecting defined border

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 248139

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Chris Roske]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When you create a style with a wrap around border and do a <pre> mozilla dosen't
respect the border, whereas Internet explorer does... I'm using a 1024 x 768, if
you have a larger area make the longer pre longer!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a test.html with

<style>
pre {
border: 1pt solid black;
white-space: pre;
}
</style>
<pre>This is kinda interesting
</pre>
<p>Just a test
</p>
<pre>Another interesting, but much longer test Another interesting, but much
longer test Another interesting, but much longer test Another interesting, but
much longer test
</pre>

2. Open it with Firefox 1.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0, Mozilla does not respect
the border, I.E does
Actual Results:  
You get a border that dosen't respect the length of the long text

Comment 1

[Chris Roske]

Attachment: This is a test case

Comment 2

[Erik Fabert]

Mozilla's rendering is correct. PRE is a block level element with a default 
width of 'auto', which in this case computes to the width of the viewport. What 
you see to the right of the border is overflow.
If you want to make sure the border contains the whole text, you could use e.g. 
set the PRE to display: inline.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248139 ***

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Except display:inline will not do anything remotely like what reporter wants. 
"display:table-cell" will, though.