Expected results:
The yellow stripe above should be horizontally located between 200px and
400px on the ruler.
Actual results in Internet Explorer 8:
The yellow stripe above is horizontally located between 200px and
600px.
Actual results in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet
Explorer 7:
The yellow stripe is not visible, not viewable or is not rendered at
all.
Reference:
"for a given element, the property takes the same computed value as the
property for the element's parent."
taken from CSS 2.1,
section 6.2.1 The 'inherit' value
Firefox 2.0.0.14, Firefox 3, Opera 9.27, Opera 9.50, Safari 3.1.1, Konqueror 3.5.9, Seamonkey 1.x, Seamonkey 2.x, NS 7.2, K-meleon 1.x, Hv3 TKHTML alpha 16, Epiphany 2.22, Galeon 2.0.2 all pass this test.
This bug has been reported at connect's IE beta feedback as bug 344787. This bug has been closed by the IE team and will not be fixed for the release of IE 8 final.