415476 - CSS 2.1 :first-letter pseudo-element and letter-spacing selector

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[FirefoxRocks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 FireShot/0.32
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 FireShot/0.32

The letter-spacing selector is not applied on the first letter of the element when specified using the CSS pseudo-element :first-letter. This applies to all block-level elements on which the :first-letter element is applied upon.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View the attached test file.
Actual Results:  
The "T" in the paragraph looks normal like nothing has been applied.

Expected Results:  
The "T" in the paragraph is supposed to be spaced out from the rest of the words/letters because its letter spacing is increased. Look at the example in other browsers such as Opera or Safari.

This happens with Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP and on Ubuntu Linux. The style is applied on Opera and Safari 3 for Windows.

Comment 1

[FirefoxRocks]

Attachment: Testcase in HTML

This is the effect seen using HTML parsing.

Comment 2

[FirefoxRocks]

Attachment: Testcase in XHTML

This is the effect shown rendering using the XML parser, if that makes a difference.

Comment 3

[Elmar Ludwig]

Do you also see this in a current trunk build (like Firefox 3 beta 2)?

WFM in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020204 Minefield/3.0b3pre ID:2008020204

This may have been fixed by bug 220577.