93842 - position attribute of xul popup's does not work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Colin Phillips]

I have tried to follow the xul 1.0 spec for popup, but i cannot get the position
attribute to work.

the code I am using is as follows: (in navigator.xul)
<popupset>
	<popup position="overlap" id="colin">
		<label value="gus gone"/>
	</popup>
</popupset>
...
      <button class="button-toolbar bookmark-item" id="home-button"
label="&homeButton.label;"
              tooltip="aTooltip" persist="hidden" popup="colin"
...
When I click the back button the tooltip popup should overlap, but it always
pops up at the current mouse position.

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

Is this implemented yet?

Comment 2

[Colin Phillips]

According to the xul 1.0 spec it is, and I haven't seen any bugs saying
"implement this".  So I would have to assume it's supposed to work.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

oh hyatt! this is what you get for doing a spec that isn't fully implemented yet 
;)

Comment 4

[David Hyatt]

"overlap" is not yet implemented (and neither is "position"), but it's easy. 
I'll add it when I add "position".

Comment 5

[David Hyatt]

Fixed in current builds.  

See section 2.4 of the spec on mozilla.org.  At the front of that section I 
have a link to an example page that illustrates all 11 possible alignments.

Comment 6

[Colin Phillips]

Thanks Hyatt!  Though I've found some "issues" with this.  I'll log a separate
bug against them.