Different display border-left-width in NN4 en MSIE4

The display of 

<H2 STYLE="border-left-width: thin; border-style: solid">some text</H2>

differs in NN4 and MSIE4.

NN4 only sets the left border with a thin width, but MSIE4 also sets the
other sides with medium width.

The specification is not completely clear to me on this point, but one
can read it like this:
- it's necessary to use the border-style property, otherwise the border
isn't visible because of the initial value of none;
- if you use one value for the border-style property it should apply to
all four sides;
- because the initial value of border-width is medium, all the sides
without the border-width property are set to medium.
I suppose that's the way it works in MSIE4. Is this the correct
interpretation of the specification?

In NN4 it doesn't matter if you use the border-style property.
Apparently the initial value NN4 uses in this case is solid. Also it
makes no difference if you use more than one value for the border-style
property. The other sides remain without border.





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Received on Thursday, 30 October 1997 13:35:40 UTC