404427 - for description elements, crop only works if you use the value attribute

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

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for description elements, crop only works if you use the value attribute

<description style="max-width: 20px" crop="end" value="this one uses value"/>

<description style="max-width: 20px" crop="end">this one does not use value</description>

test case and screen shot coming

Comment 1

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Comment 2

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Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Isn't that supposed to be a feature, not a bug? I thought that was the point of the third and fourth lines of the docs you linked to: if you want a single line, with cropped overflow, you use @value, if you want wrapping to multiple lines you use the element content.

Comment 4

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hmm, good point phil.

Perhaps I could indicate what I'm ultimately trying to do:

<description style="max-width: 30px" crop="end">this <label style="font-weight: bold">is a</label> test</description>

(this is for bug #399664)

Comment 5

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Phil is correct; I don't think we have anything that can achieve the effect that Seth is looking for. I think the best you can do is to override the (min-)width of the description so that it overflows its container.

Comment 6

[Neil Deakin]

Sounds like you actually want bug 312156 to be implemented.

Comment 7

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> Sounds like you actually want bug 312156 to be implemented.

Yes, that sounds like it would work.  Any idea what that might involve?

Separate from having that, could description be made to do what I want?