320011 - No background color and broken border for absolute-positioned elements outside viewport

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1)

An element with the position: absolute; property and a large top and left value (must be greater then the size of the browser window) will not be rendered with a background-color and only with a broken border, event if the user scrolls far enough to see it.

(see testcase)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create element with a background color, position absolute, and top: 3000px; left: 3000px
2. scroll to element


Actual Results:  
element does not have background color and a broken border

Expected Results:  
element should look normally (see testcase)

Comment 1

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Attachment: testcase, does not work for me

Comment 2

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Attachment: better testcase

sorry, bad testcase. forgot to set the background color on body (since my default isn't white). try this one.

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

Please retest with Firefox 1.5

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051227 Firefox/1.6a1

This works for me in the latest trunk. Reopen if you can reproduce in 1.5 or trunk.