Take a look at this picture:
it is a zoomed screenshot from this jsfiddle.So, what is the purple border around red bar?o_O It looks bad, and furthermore, thereafter in real application I get it in even more strange way:
– somewhere it exists but somewhere dont.
Better pics:

So, we solved this problem on math.SE, as a shortcut – width and height should both be of the same parity (i.e. either both odd or both even) (thanks Steven Stadnicki).