1070742 - text-overflow paints ellipsis when text-indent is more than width

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect, P4)

Description

[Dominykas Blyžė]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.94 Safari/537.36 OPR/24.0.1558.53

Steps to reproduce:

http://jsfiddle.net/a4bd42L2/

div {
    width: 50px;
    text-indent: 51px;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    overflow: hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

There are some historical bugs in this area - not sure if this is a regression:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690187
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684266



Actual results:

Ellipsis displays, although the whole text is "outside" of the visible area


Expected results:

Ellipsis should not display.
It doesn't when text-indent is exactly equal to width (it seems that it also isn't painted when it wouldn't fit, e.g. when text-indent is just slightly lower than width).

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I agree it's inconsistent to show an ellipsis in that case.
IE and Chrome doesn't do that, fwiw.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Actually, the current rendering is intentional.
We should wait until bug 944200 is resolved though.  It changes the area to consider
for ellipsing from "block's content area" to "line-box area", which would solve
the reported case.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Mats, is this a quick fix now that bug 944200 is resolved?

Comment 5

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

No, it appears that our line-box metrics aren't affected by the text-indent.

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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