295463 - non-breaking space ignored between input tags

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[frantisek holop]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050522 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050522 Firefox/1.0.4

the non-breaking space html entity is not honoured between <input> tags.  see
steps to reproduce for an example.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put in a html file: <input type="text" size="64">&nbsp;<input type="text"
size="64">
2. view it and resize the window so it's smaller than the entries side by side
3.

Actual Results:  
the inputs are broken up into 2 lines

Expected Results:  
the inputs should have remained on 1 line, scrollbars should appear for navigating

Comment 1

[frantisek holop]

Attachment: a simple testcase

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050525
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052508

WFM

Comment 3

[frantisek holop]

i am not a firefox guru, but i think 1.0+
is not the same line as 1.0.x

does this make my report void?

i am fairly sure that it does not work on 1.0.x including 1.0.4
that's the official version from getfirefox.com so i don't
get it. why did you close the report?

Comment 4

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

The 1.0.x series use a very old version of Gecko, and all subsequent releases
will be based on a newer rendering engine. That means that bugs that do not
appear on the trunk are no longer useful.

Comment 5

[PikeUK]

Hmm, I can reproduce this in:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050525 Firefox/1.0+

Not sure if it's expected/correct behaviour or not but the inputs definitely wrap.

Can someone else please test with a nightly?

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

Verifying invalid, not WFM. HTML 4.01 9.3.2.2 says nbsp is for prohibiting a line break between two *words*, not two arbitary elements. Thus it is only applicable within text.

To properly prohibit the line break in this case, wrap the two inputs in an element with the CSS rule white-space:nowrap.

Comment 7

[frantisek holop]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Verifying invalid, not WFM. HTML 4.01 9.3.2.2 says nbsp is for prohibiting a
> line break between two *words*, not two arbitary elements. Thus it is only
> applicable within text.
> 
> To properly prohibit the line break in this case, wrap the two inputs in an
> element with the CSS rule white-space:nowrap.

mostly interesting.  thanks for clearing this up.
(what is "WFM"?)

Comment 8

[Steve England [:stevee]]

WFM = Works For Me