63040 - the effect of max-width

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[tapio.markula]

Sorry, the width control works:
I have this css:

html {background-color:#603;border:none;margin:0;padding:0px;}
body.mielipide {max-width:600px;margin: auto;margin-bottom:30px}

The problem of Mozilla is that it renders the page totally white.
Opera render the area, which is outside the max-width as #603 = at the background-color, which belongs to the HTML element. In my mind Opera does it
right. Do you disagree?

Opera understands the max-width as ABSOLUTE concerning the whole element, not only the width of the content area like Mozilla Gecko.
In fact this matter is not exactly defined.

Damned all different interpretaions!
- Opera and Mozilla has different interpretation of 'viewport'
- how to render borders to some form elements: http://www.nic.fi/~tapio1/Teaching/Taustat.html
- how to handle are outside the max-width property.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Testcase using max-width on body

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The attached testcase worksforme with linux build 2000-12-05-08.  The white area
is 600px wide, and the rest of the page has background #603.

Resolving worksforme.  Reporter, feel free to reopen if you try a recent nightly
build and still see the problem.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 63030 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***