740939 - SVG element does not have default width if width is unspecified

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 736431

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[mfrederick]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.142 Safari/535.19

Steps to reproduce:

<svg version="1.1" style="height: 28px; border: 1px solid red">
<text x="0" y="20" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;fill:#000000;">Hello, this is some long, long, long text that may not render correctly.</text>
</svg>


Actual results:

The bounding box width for the SVG element seems to be arbitrarily set to 300px. According to the spec, "If the attribute is not specified, the effect is as if a value of '100%' were specified."

Setting the width to 100% seems to be the workaround.


Expected results:

Unspecified width should work as intended. This works in FF10 and below.