29420 - We need the proposed box-sizing property

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Erik Arvidsson]

The current box model specified be CSS2 realy sucks. To fix the shortcomings of 
this Mozilla should give a high priority to add the proposed CSS3 property 
called box-sizing. This property allows margins, paddings, borders and 
width/height to work as one might expect and not like the current quirky way it 
works now where one cannot have an element with border, padding etc to be 100% 
of the parent!

Comment 1

[Erik Arvidsson]

Attachment: This shows the shortcomings of the CSS2 box model

Comment 2

[troy]

We already have support for box-sizing, in fact it's used extensively in 
html.css (our ua style sheet)

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified invalid based on last comments.

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified invalid based on last comments.