IE4 using 'width'/'height' props the wrong way?

Just wanted to have this potential IE4 'misfeature' verified by people who
know the specification well.

My impression after reading the CSS2 spec. is that the following snipped
should produce a 200pt-wide red strip.

<DIV style="padding-left: 20pt; padding-right: 20pt; border-left: solid
20pt; border-right: solid 20pt; margin-left: 20pt; margin-right: 20pt;
width: 200pt;">
<P style="background-color: red;">200 pts of red</P>
</DIV>

Unfortunately, IE4 (Win) seems to define 'width' as being the width of the
content PLUS padding and border. Is this a bug, or am I just confused after
having spent too many hours working with our rendering machinery?

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salling@xanthus.se
Senior Software Engineer
Xanthus' iWrite

Received on Monday, 23 February 1998 15:52:16 UTC