329920 - width and height CSS-style attributes are not correct for SPAN or A tags

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 34415

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[u130342]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

I tried to do some layouting using javascript by setting the style of an A tag to center an image inside of the a tag. I failed and after some time I found that width/height/min-width/min-height styles seem to be ignored for A and SPAN tags.
I believe this is probably true for other tags as well, but I didn't check.
My idea was to use
<a style="width:100px; height:100px; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; "><img src="some.jpg"></a> 
to center the image with fixed width and height of the A tag.

Because I really don't know how to describe this in words I created a test ff-bug.htm.

It appears on FF1.5.0.1 and on DeerPark 1.9a1: 2006020505 (A nighty I think).




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open test-case (ff-bug.htm)
To be more impressive I've added a 120x120 div block around each 

Actual Results:  
width/height/vertical-align/text-align styles are ignored
Maybe there is a separate bug visible on  box 2 and 4 of ff-bug.htm.
The box of the link should surround the image, but it is just as high as normal text (green border)


Expected Results:  
see ff-bug.htm textual description

I think CSS is major feature!
IE looks better, but vertical-align is also not realized.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Dupe of bug 34415?

Comment 2

[u130342]

Attachment: ff-bug.htm

Small html, showing styles not functioning

Comment 3

[u130342]

Sorry didn't find bug 34415.

But are you sure it's a dupe regarding the box of the A-tag?

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Yes, <a> is an inline element.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34415 ***