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by gmiller123456 171 days ago
What ever that "certain way" it's supposed to act, someone obviously wants it to act different if they set a height and width. Having to redefine the display time is a needless extra step that the user has to "just know" when the intention could easily be inferred.
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Izkata 171 days ago
Okay; would you like it to change to inline-block or block or grid?

Width and height are meaningless for inline elements, but automatically changing the display would be more confusing, not less.

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gmiller123456 171 days ago
> Width and height are meaningless for inline elements

Really not sure what you're trying to get at there, obviously any element that displays will have a width and height. Maybe you meant a user specified width/height, but the entire point of my post is an inline-block is an inline element with a specifiable width and height. And we've always had the IMG tag, which is also an inline element with a specifiable width and height. The obvious and intuitive choice would have been to not put artificial limits on inline elements.

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bigbuppo 170 days ago
It's not a limit. It's an expected behavior and you can still deviate from that anyway you wish.

You could even do something crazy like `* {display: block;}` if you really want, and then go from there. Nobody can stop you. The freedom is yours.

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