95176 - [quirk] inline elements should grow to contain children in quirks mode

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Forked from bug 94812.

Many bugs are filed because <a> elements don't behave like inline-block elements 
when they contain an image.  See bug 94812, bug 93950, bug 74712 and others...

In Nav4 and IE when an anchor contains an image, its border includes the image.
Is is something we want to do?

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Pierre: What you describe in the third paragraph of the initial description of 
this bug is not an 'inline-block'. An inline block doesn't split across lines.

I strongly suggest WONTFIXing this bug. We have much bigger fish to fry. Fixing
this would be very risky, and I don't think that we poke our already near-
perfect inline box model code unless we really need to.

Comment 2

[Daniel Mario Vega (Restore MNG Support --> #18574)]

While using my home banking account, I found this problem. There is a navigation
bar on top and I can not "click" on the links.

For a simplified testcase see attachment 48421 [details]

Comment 3

[basic]

I think the problem in attachment 48421 [details] is a different problem as it goes away when

        <div style="position:absolute;left:395px; top:12px">
            <table>
            <tr>
			   <td>&nbsp;</td>
            </tr>
            </table>
        </div>

is commented out.

Comment 4

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Resolving as WONTFIX based on Ian's comment