280228 - Text inside inline fieldset refuses to align to the right

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Ram Rachum]

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

Text (and stuff) inside a Fieldset with "display:inline;" refuses to be aligned
to the right. This is in my hebrew right-to-left document. Even if a
right-aligned, RTLed div is inside the fieldset and contains the text, the text
is still left-aligned.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Brew some html.
2. Put a fieldset element, with css property "display" set to "inline".
3. Put some text inside.
4. Now try to align it to right.
5. Behold.
6. Bang your head on the computer screen (optional).
Actual Results:  
Text aligned to the left, as I said.

Expected Results:  
Text aligned to the right.

This doesn't happen in IE.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Please attach a testcase showing this issue:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=280228&action=enter

Comment 2

[Ram Rachum]

Attachment: An HTML doc that demonstrates this shortcoming.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Looks like the right rendering to me... the div is exactly the width of the
text, and the text is right-aligned within it.

What do you expect the rendering to look like, exactly?

Comment 4

[Ram Rachum]

(In reply to comment #3)

The text is aligned to the left, and also the box is. Look at the source, and
also look at it with IE.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I can't look at the testcase in IE, due to not having IE.

But the text is aligned to the right inside the box (put a border on the <div>
to see ths), and the <fieldset> tag doesn't have an "align" attribute in HTML,
so the fieldset is also being placed in the right spot...  whatever IE is doing,
it's not following the HTML or CSS spec here.

Note also that "display:inline" in IE doesn't mean the same thing as it does in
the CSS spec....

Comment 6

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Attachment: IE rendering

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Looks like IE is treating "align" on fieldset the way it's treated on <img>. 
There's no really good reason to do that...

Comment 8

[Standart]

Attachment: Floated fieldset vs. DIV

Demonstrates rendering of a floated fieldset containing block elements vs. DIV.

Comment 9

[Standart]

As you can see above (#8) in a fieldset not displayed as a block and without a fixed width child elements (blocks) seem to not have the correct default width.

Works on Safari 2 for me (both child DIVs 100% width). Does not work (second DIV in fieldset has width like inline element) in Firefox 2.0.0.6.

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This last testcase is a duplicate of bug 129346.

The first testcase got "fixed" (for the text alignment, at least) by bug 300030, I bet.