113595 - Line breaks (as entities) in title attribute create excessive whitespace

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 67127

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Herman Hiddema]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    2001112009

The given URL is an example of getting tooltip on anchor tags, the example given
uses html entities (

) in the title attribute of the A tag. This causes
the tooltip to contain a large amount of whitespace at the end, pushing the
actual text of the tooltip off the left of the screen.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hover the mouse over the link "A100216: Adding ToolTips to your HTML pages."


Actual Results:  single line tooltip with a lot of whitespace appears

Expected Results:  multiline tooltip should appear

HTML Source for the relevant link:

<a href="/features/knowledge_base/a100216.html" title="ToolTips are
&#10;&#13;really neat!">
A100216: Adding ToolTips to your HTML pages.
</a>

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Odd, on Linux I see two dotted boxes (e.g., unknown character markers) for the
entities.  Normally on Windows this manifests itself as black lines; see bug
67127.  Anyone else see this?

Comment 2

[Herman Hiddema]

Attachment: Screenshot of the tooltip

Here's a screenshot of the bug, as you can see, the text is still there, but is
pressed all the way to the left and doesn't fit on the screen entirely.

Comment 3

[David Hyatt]

--> default owner

Comment 4

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

over to hewitt, who I've been advised is doing more of the tooltip work (sorry
for all the spam!)

Comment 5

[David Philippi]

Is it to be expected that this bug will be fixed in the near future? I'm seeing
the unknown character marker on linux and I'm also experiencing the problem that
the tooltip is cut of after a certain length.
A maximal line lenght probably makes sense (although it's rather short right
now) but unless linebreaks - be it character references or a simple #13/#13#10
should please be made to work. I convinced the authors of a site
(www.empireuniverse.com - a browsergame) at least to duplicate the informations
from the alt attribute into the title attribute but now I still see only
shortened tooltips.

Comment 6

[Shawn Wilson]

Is this a dupe of bug 67127?

Comment 7

[Anne (:annevk)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67127 ***