90560 - XML blocks do not wrap text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 86276

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Chris Donica]

I have tested this in the recent dailies in linux and windows, they all
behave the same way. Older versions, at least 0.9.1 and before do not
have this problem.

This bug has something to do with the way mozilla is treating blocks and
margins. If you have a block element and then apply a left or right margin the
text does not wrap.
The xml file consists of one <text> tag nested within a root tag. The
nested tag can be viewed with two CSS stylesheets, one with a left-margin set,
and one without margins. The two CSS choices for the file can be seen by
changing the stylesheet under the View menu. As you can see, when you have a
block that has the left margin set, the text does not wrap.
The bug exists for any type of margin applied in any way to the right or the
left, padding included. It also does not matter how many parents the block has,
or whether those parents have display set to block, inline or undefined.
However, if the text is in the root tag, everything is dandy.

    I don't think this is bug 86983 because that bug was dealing with tables and
lists.  This is more fundamental.  Plus, all the examples on that bug work for
me except the "really long <hr>" stuff.  And that's supposed to be part of bug
87543.

Comment 1

[Chris Donica]

Attachment: The CSS file without specified margins.

Comment 2

[Chris Donica]

I lied.

That last file is the css WITH a specified margin-left.

Comment 3

[Chris Donica]

Attachment: CSS file WITHOUT margins. Really.

Comment 4

[Chris Donica]

Attachment: XML file using above CSS

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->Style System

Comment 6

[Chris Donica]

This bug completely blocks the use of xml in mozilla related products. Blocks
with margins are the most basic display units that exist.  This bug is also a
regression. It is present on the 0.9.3 and 0.9.2 branches and on the trunk. 
People using the latest netscapes or mozilla will not be able to display XML.  I
think it should be nominated for catfood, higher priority, next mozilla branch,
and fixed for the previous releases.  It also is an XML blocker and a CSS1 issue.

Comment 7

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86276 ***