271582 - css width and height attributes are being ignored when using display:inline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50626

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Phil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0

the following code does not draw a 100px wide square as it's supposed to. 
instead, a rectangle is drawn just as wide as the text "i'm a box".
<div style="display:inline;
            background-color:red;
	    width:100px;
            height:100px;">
i'm a box
</div>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
A rectangle just as wide and high as the text inside the div.

Expected Results:  
Draw a 100px x 100px square

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50626 ***