64823 - The padding widens an element, even though it's width is explicitely set

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Going to attach a testcase in which you can see that the element with no padding
is smaller than the one with the padding. But both have the same value set with
width. Seen with build 2001010904 on Win 98.

Comment 1

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Attachment: Simplified testcase

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

ricky, my apologies.  I misinformed you in #mozillazine.

I just looked over the CSS2 spec and
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visudet.html#the-width-property says that it sets
the width of the content of a box.

The actual width of a box is content + padding + border + margin.

So padding is not included in the width property. Marking this bug invalid.
Again, my apologies for not remembering this correctly.

Comment 3

[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 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

o...k...

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 101823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***