288248 - css shorthand "border" does not work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Edward Bespalov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

css border properties like border-style, border-width, border-color works as
usual but shorthand "border" (specified in css2 standard) does not work.
That is css style defined as 
table {border-width: 2; border-style: solid; border-color:lightgrey} - works
but defined as 
table {border: 2 solid lightgrey} - does not

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Look into html page source of specified url.
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Expected Results:  
in according to css2 standard both style definition have to work

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

Your code doesn't specify any units on the length so it is invalid and Firefox
is right to ignore it.

Having said that the page is in quirks mode and FF does accept a unitless
border-width with no problems, perhaps its just a case of not knowing whether
the unitless number is an invalid width or an invalid colour, moving to Core so
someone can decide if this is deliberate or not.

->Core

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There's no way to do the unitless thing inside shorthands without screwing up,
so this is invalid.  Things are working exactly as designed.

fwiw, leaving CSS bugs assigned to Blake isn't a good way to get them noticed... ;)