On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bobby Jack<[email protected]> wrote: > > --- On Wed, 6/17/09, Richard Grevers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Google chrome (2.0.172.31) appears to >> minimise the width of floated >> tables which have no explicit width, while most other >> browsers assume >> 100%. Is this actually a bug or just one of those undefined >> behaviours >> that serve as a lesson to always follow Braden's mantra? > > I've always been led to believe that "float without explicit width" is a > no-no, but I think this might only be due to poor browser implementations. > >From the spec: > > "10.3.5 Floating, non-replaced elements - If 'width' is computed as 'auto', > the used value is the "shrink-to-fit" width." > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#float-width > > As I read that, Google chrome is the only browser that behaves correctly - > over to someone else to correct ME though :) > I suspect that Opera and Gecko have both decided to go bug-compatible with Microsoft on this one. Thanks for the feedback everyone.
-- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
