489769 - Mail preview contents overflows the container and covers the statusbar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 499543

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[u344248]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090422 Shredder/3.0b3pre ID:20090422031642

When viewing mail in main window preview area, sometimes the contents overflow the container and cover the statusbar. It happens when all mail details are visible or an additional info toolbar (eg. that remote images where blocked) is being displayed AND the preview area is very small.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. select an e-mail in main window, so the preview shows up
2. click the "show details" button
3. make the preview area smaller, so that only the mail headers are visible

Actual Results:  
The contents of the preview area overflow and cover the statusbar contents

Expected Results:  
A scrollbar should appear or the overflow should be hidden or the preview area should collapse

Comment 1

[u344248]

Attachment: Screenshot that presents the bug

This screenshot presents the bug

Comment 2

[u344248]

Attachment: 2-nd screenshot of the bug

Comment 3

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

looks like a bug, not sure if that's some kind of toolkit issue w/ windows.  Does this happen in TB2 as well?

Comment 4

[u344248]

(In reply to comment #3)
> looks like a bug, not sure if that's some kind of toolkit issue w/ windows. 
> Does this happen in TB2 as well?

yes, the same happens in TB2 (screenshot: http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4189/th4.png )

Comment 5

[u344248]

Found a small solution for this issue.

#messagepanebox {
	overflow: hidden !important;
}

I added the above snippet into userChrome.css and it solved the problem in TB 3 builds.

In TB 2 it solved the problem partially. The text content hides itself now, but the background of the header view covers the statusbar ( http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5241/th5.png )

Comment 6

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Interesting; thanks for continuing to investigate.  If you feel like playing around some more, installing DOM inspector might be helpful.