114901 - More collapsing percentage height textareas

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P2)

Description

[Greg Valure]

As described in the testcase, there are more situations that cause textareas to
collapse.

The first is if the form has margin: 0 and there is a nested table.  This
doesn't happen if there is a scrollbar on the page, which probably causes an
extra reflow.

The second is if the form is in the table rather than vice versa.  I don't know
if a 100% height textarea is supposed to stretch the form vertically or not in
this case, but if you add height: 100% to the form it doesn't work either.

Comment 1

[Greg Valure]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Greg Valure]

Oops, forgot the build ID: 2001-12-11-03 Win98

Comment 3

[anthonyd]

the problem i see here also is the tables not reducing to original sizes once 
you resize the page smaller, then normal again (if that makes any sense).

Comment 4

[Greg Valure]

I think I know what you mean.  If you shrink the page horizontally to the point
where the text needs enough lines to make the tables grow vertically, and then
expand the page again, the tables won't shrink back down vertically.  This is
very likely bug 114706.

Comment 5

[Dimitrios]

*** Bug 116411 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Jim Kilmer]

For reference, Bug 116411 is NOT an exact duplicate of this bug, but I guess 
it's close.  The problem described is not limited to <textarea> elements, but 
affects all <input> elements as well.

Furthermore, the behavior described in bug 114706 does not manifest here when 
the affected elements are input elements instead of textarea elements.

I'll attach another test case, illustrating this for two types of input 
elements and two scaling scenarios.  If this is being lumped here, we might 
want to edit this bug's summary to include more than just textareas for anyone 
else encountering it.

Comment 7

[Jim Kilmer]

Attachment: testcase for two input element types, scaling via CSS

Comment 8

[karnaze (gone)]

Temporarily moving to future until a milestone can be assigned. 

Comment 9

[Greg Valure]

It appears the first test in the first testcase, form with margin: 0 and a
nested table, is fixed in 2002-04-04-03 Win98.  The other two still collapse.

Comment 10

[karnaze (gone)]

mass reassign to default owner

Comment 11

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by bug 219693 and bug 88035/bug 222730