Closed Bug 844649 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

CSS min-width and min-height without units don't work anymore

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(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
CSS Parsing and Computation
Version:
19 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

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()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

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(Reporter: freewon, Unassigned)

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A small code showing the CSS error of min-width and min-max
580 bytes, text/html
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User Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.10

Steps to reproduce:

I wanted to use the CSS-properties min-width and min-height, as you can see in the attached code.


Actual results:

The CSS-properties min-width and min-height have no effect anymore.

Because the min-width isn't checked anymore by Firefox, it's possible to overlay the 'content' (which is a div using the min-weight) with the 'right_layer' (which is just another div) by narrowing the browser window.

And because the min-height isn't checked anymore by Firefox, a normal div using min-height is shown very improperly (in my code example the div 'content' is only drawn as a bold line instead as a huge layer).

This issues first occured in version 17.0.1 and aren't solved until today.

Works with Firefox 14.0.1, 16.0.1
Problem since 17.0.1
Issue not solved in 19.0


Expected results:

The CSS properties min-width and min-height should have worked.
Comment on attachment 717659 [details]
A small code showing the CSS error of min-width and min-max

><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
><html>
><head>
><title>Untitled Document</title>
></head>
><body>
><div name="edge" style="border:0;position:fixed;min-width:600;width:100%">
><div id="content" style="background:#FF0000;margin:0;border:0;padding:10;position:absolute;top:80;left:140;right:204;width:auto;min-height:400;overflow:hidden">
></div>
>  <div id="right_layer" style="background:#00FF00;margin:0;border:0;padding:10;text-indent:10;position:absolute;right:0;top:80;width:214;height:300;overflow:visible">
>  </div>
></div>
></body>
></html>
Attachment #717659 - Attachment mime type: text/plain → text/html
Same issue as before. You need units.
Blocks: 774122
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Same answer as before: "You" is "a Firefox user since 17.0.1", nobody else, no other Browser.

Look into my commentary on: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844641
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Have you noticed this problem on sites that you use but are not the developer of?
Component: Untriaged → Style System (CSS)
OS: Windows XP → All
Product: Firefox → Core
Hardware: x86 → All
Summary: CSS min-width and min-height don't work anymore → CSS min-width and min-height without units don't work anymore
I haven't seen any feedback from users of sites about those sites being broken, and we've been shipping this on the release channel for quite a few months now.

This is also something we've never supported in standards mode; it's quirks mode only.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago → 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
I've no problem with that.

But: When Firefox is running in quirks mode, why not inform the developers about this issue in the log.console or the error log?

I don't know how good you know compileable languages, but a good compiler always tells the programmer if there is an error in the code. And because browser often don't do this, it's really a huge mess to work with browsers!

Somehow the browser developer think that all programmer (must) read all specifications about any browser. But this is a very wrong concept, any programming (in C, C# or Java), couldn't be done with this concept! Without validation, I just see that something doesn't work, but I don't know why, while the browser knows why, but doesn't tell me. That's a very strange concept and not programmer friendly at all.

And I'm certainly not going to read all those rules in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla_Quirks_Mode_Behavior, that's the Job of the browser to integrate those rules and notify the programmer if something isn't okey.

So, I please you to inform me in the future when Firefox runs in quirks mode. That would be just a few lines of code in the Firefox core, but a huge improvement for all developers.

Thanks in advance.
But we do that in the Error Console already...

Timestamp: 25/02/2013 07:23:19
Warning: Error in parsing value for 'min-width'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://bug844649.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=717659
Line: 0

Timestamp: 25/02/2013 07:23:19
Warning: Error in parsing value for 'min-height'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://bug844649.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=717659
Line: 0

Timestamp: 25/02/2013 07:23:19
Warning: Error in parsing value for 'text-indent'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://bug844649.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=717659
Line: 0
But you want something that says "You're in quirks mode" in the log.
For that right click, choose Page Info and the Render Mode is labelled as Quirks mode.
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