CSS Test Suite width and height tests

A major test that is missing from the CSS1 test suite is a test that
width (5.5.23) and height (5.5.24) are not enlarged when there are
children elements larger than the parent.  (This is something most
current browsers fail.)  A test could be something like this (just
doing width as an example):

div.three {
  width: 20em;
  border: medium solid purple;
  padding: 1em;
  }

p.three {
  width: 30em;
  border: medium solid purple;
  padding: 1em;
  }

<div class="three">
  This is text inside DIV CLASS="three".  This DIV should have width
  20em.

  <p class="three">
    This is text inside P CLASS="three".  This P should have width 30em,
    and should therefore be wider than its parent and should "stick out"
    on the right side.
  </p>

</div>

I am proposing this publicly because the Test Suite is at its last
stage of review, so others should be able to comment before final
release.

David

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L. David Baron         | Freshman, Harvard
dbaron@fas.harvard.edu | < http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Edbaron/ >
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Received on Wednesday, 20 January 1999 21:09:13 UTC