58200 - width style ignored on inline elements in M17

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50626

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[David Woolley]

The following sample displays with a gap around "Fred" in IE 5.01, which is what
I'd expect, but M17 ignores the style.  It appears that the CSS attribute width
is not honoured for inline elements.

<title>Test</title>
<p>
<span style="width:20em">Fred</span> was here.</p>

The following fragment validates OK against the W3C
stylesheet validator:

span {width:20em}

and this form works for IE but not M17, as well:

<title>Test</title>
<style>
span {width:20em}
</style>
<p>
<span>Fred</span> was here.</p>

(NS 4.75, gets confused and seems to treat Fred as being in block mode. The last
but one Amaya ignores the style.)

I was trying to demonstrate how to get a layout like a table, but using true
list constructs for a list of the form:

*  label    description
*  label    description
*  label    description

Where some labels are of non-standard lengths.

Comment 1

[David Woolley]

Adding   type="text/css"  to the style tag, to make the HTML valid, except for 
DOCTYPE, makes no difference.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Confirmed on Linux trunk build 2000102608

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

INVALID; 'width' doesn't apply to inline elements in CSS. See the spec. This is
a bug in Internet Explorer.

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Netscape's standard compliance QA team reorganised itself once again, so taking 
remaining non-tables style bugs. Sorry about the spam. I tried to get this done 
directly at the database level, but apparently that is "not easy because of the 
shadow db", "plus it screws up the audit trail", so no can do...

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

reassigning QA to petersen since I resolved this bug

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50626 ***