Posted by Roderik on 11/02/07 17:38

Tomasz Chmielewski schreef:
> I noticed that Firefox ignores img height and width.
>
> This can be demonstrated with the simple code pasted below (or, just go
> to http://wpkg.org/test.html).
>
> The code below points to a non-existing image (or an image which can't
> be fetched).
> In IE or Konqueror, we will see a 400px x 200px blank space.
>
> In Firefox and Seamonkey we just don't have any blank space (specified
> by height and width), so website look will likely break without an image.
>
> Which browser's behaviour is correct?
>

If the image is not available it falls back to the alternative, the alt
text, which is probably rendered as an inline element.
If it is right to fall back to an inline element, I don't know. I would
also prefer that it just took the dimensions as specified.

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