59007 - width in css doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 50626

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

Description

[Morten Brix Pedersen]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test6 i686; Nav)
BuildID:    20001102


the "width" attribute in CSS2 doesn't work, it works in IE - try comparing
http://blah.wtf.dk/ in IE and Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.

Make a stylesheet:
<style> A.bah { width: 150px; background-color: black; } </style>

make a link with the stylesheet
<a class="bah" href="bah.htm">bah</a>

2.
Try it out in your browser
You'll notice that the width attribute is totally ignored, the width of the link
will be the width of the text, not the one defined by width.. try it in IE eg.


Actual Results:  The width attribute is ignored.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have made the link the width I specified, not
the width of the text.

Comment 1

[Richard Brodie]

I think this is INVALID: per the CSS2 spec -

"width: This property does not apply to non-replaced inline-level elements. The
width of a non-replaced inline element's boxes is that of the rendered content
within them"

Anchors start off being inlined. If you force it to display: block via the style
sheet it renders as you expected. Applying the style to the TD is probably
better though.

Comment 2

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Richard is correct. You can't set the width on inline elements.
Closed as invalid.

Comment 3

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified invalid.

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

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