453121 - Pseudo element :first-letter is ignored in child of float

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Masahiro YAMADA]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja-KS; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080829063055 Minefield/3.1a2pre

first-letter is ignored when it is child element of float.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
first letter should be displayed with "font-size:26px"

Expected Results:  
first letter is not displayed with "font-size:15px" (font size of float)

Comment 1

[Masahiro YAMADA]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

You apply the :first-letter to a <span> = inline element.
However in CSS3 selectors has this:

In CSS, the ::first-letter pseudo-element applies to block, list-item, table-cell, table-caption, and inline-block elements.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#first-letter

and css2:1 selectors
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#first-letter

if you make your span a block-level element: <p> instead of <span>, or give the span {display:block;}, you will get the expected results.

Comment 3

[Masahiro YAMADA]

this bug is really INVALID.
--> VERIFIED