16848 2012-04-25 00:22:52 +0000 {font-family: inherit foo;} is parsed and reported as invalid 2012-08-29 10:50:14 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSSValidator CSS 2.1 CSS Validator PC All RESOLVED FIXED http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/font-family-inherit-foo.html&warning=2&profile=css21&usermedium=all P2 normal --- 1 info dave.null jackalmage www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 67002 0 info 2012-04-25 00:22:52 +0000 URL for Test ------------ http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/font-family-inherit-foo.html&warning=2&profile=css21&usermedium=all Actual result ------------- CSS validator reports this validation error message: " Value Error : font-family Too many values or values are not recognized : inherit foo " Expected result --------------- inherit foo should be treated as an unquoted font name with one blank white space which should be parsed as "inherit foo" " If a sequence of identifiers is given as a font family name, the computed value is the name converted to a string by joining all the identifiers in the sequence by single spaces. " http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-family-prop Additional notes ---------------- 1- div {font-family: foo inherit;} is parsed and reported as valid by the CSS validator. 2- This edge case has been discussed in the thread [css21] 'font-family' should disallow 'inherit' in font names more strictly" http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Apr/0662.html 3- Credits must go to Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu for discovering this Gérard 67094 1 jackalmage 2012-04-26 01:06:59 +0000 Given that there is active discussion about changing this behavior to clarify that it's invalid, I think this bug should be WONTFIX for now. It can be reopened if we agree that this is a valid case. 67364 2 info 2012-05-07 04:32:17 +0000 Resolving as WONTFIX now that things have been sufficiently clarified More info: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0200.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0160.html 68183 3 info 2012-05-27 05:21:08 +0000 " 'foo inherit' and 'inherit foo' are valid unquoted font family names. " http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0878.html Therefore, REOPENING 72971 4 ylafon 2012-08-29 10:50:14 +0000 Fixed, the test case now reports the following warning: "Family names containing whitespace should be quoted. If quoting is omitted, any whitespace characters before and after the name are ignored and any sequence of whitespace characters inside the name is converted to a single space."