279340 - text-align: right aligns absolutely positioned, inline elements

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Positioned, defect)

Description

[Michael A. Puls II]

User-Agent:       Opera/8.00 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

At http://home.tbbs.net/shadow/html/testcases/theserverside.com/spantest3.html , 
Gecko aligns the absolutely positioned spans to the right.  This looks like a 
spec violation.  The testcase is a representation of the current problem at www.
theserverside.com.  Firefox displays the page as the author wants it to, but 
Opera does not.  It appears Opera is following the spec and Firefox is not.

More info:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=205000&highlight=
http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78932

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
I believe the page should have been displayed like Opera 8 beta 1 does.  
Confirm?

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Mozilla's layout is correct, Opera is wrong.

For 'position:absolute' boxes with 'auto' top/left/right/bottom the position
should be the "static position".
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#abs-non-replaced-width

One could argue that the static position should be slightly more to the left
in Mozilla since that's where the element would be had it been normal flow,
but that would require a full reflow of the element in normal flow and we
don't do that and are not required to either since the spec says:

"But rather than actually calculating the dimensions of that hypothetical box,
user agents are free to make a guess at its probable position."

-> INVALID