Hi, I dont think it is a bug. First of all you are not overriding the white-space property buy assigning it to child elements or parent elements. You just create a conflict. Then precedence takes affect. According to the CSS2 spec:
'white-space' Value: normal | pre | nowrap | inherit Initial: normal Applies to: block-level elements Inherited: yes Percentages: N/A Media: visual Since you applied the white-space: normal to a <span> element which is not a block-level element it is ignored. By changing the <span> to a <div> *or* adding display:block to the spans style, you will get the effect you were expecting. Regards, Kepler ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julián Landerreche Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Firefox bug on CSS white-space property Hi all. First: sorry, I'm double posting this on two lists so anyone can confirm this (before reporting to Mozilla). The issue is simple (you will "see it better" by just creating a testing html with the snippet below): - there is a "white-space:nowrap" property (in the stylesheet) applied to the <a> element . - then, that rule is override with some inline styling applied ("white-space:normal") on two elements: one that wraps the <a> elements and one that is wrapped by the <a> element (that also contains the text). - the text inside the <a> elements is a very very very long link. - and the link is inside a table with a fixed with. - every tested browser (but FF) honors both the width of the table and the "white-space:normal" applied to both the parent and children of the <a> elements. - but Firefox just expands the table width and doesn't break the link in multiple lines as expected. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************