315334 - Shrink to fit for absolutely positioned elements fails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 291126

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim Dabell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051004 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051004 Firefox/1.0.7

Absolutely positioned elements should have their widths calculated using a shrink-to-fit algorithm in some circumstances.  Firefox incorrectly calculates the width as 100%.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jim Dabell]

Attachment: Testcase

This testcase renders the outer element with 100% width instead of using the shrink-to-fit algorithm.

Comment 2

[Jim Dabell]

There is additional commentary on this bug report for Konqueror:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95146

The latest versions of Konqueror, Opera and Safari do not exhibit the same behaviour as Firefox.

Firefox 1.0.x and 1.5 RC 1 behave the same as each other.

The relevant part of the CSS 2.1 specification is here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#abs-non-replaced-width

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I believe this is a duplicate of bug 291126.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 291126 ***