118008 - Multi-paragraph blockquotes do not render correctly

Status: CLOSED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Brant Gurganus]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122106

Single paragraph blockquotes render correctly, but more than one paragraph in a
blockquote do not.  The example is at the bottom of the page.  It is XHTML 1.1
compliant except for the ellipse character, but this should not affect the
rendering.
It appears as one paragraph on top of the other.  It should appear as two
separate blockquote style paragraphs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. View the example page.
2. Scroll to the bottom.
3. Look at the blockquote with two paragraphs.

Actual Results:  Look at the description.

Expected Results:  Look at the description.

Here is the snippet of the page code where the problem occurs:

<blockquote cite="Mr. Wilson">
<p>Chief Belzer has been my friend since 1914 when he  first befriended me and
gave me help.  He was recognized as the real father  of the Boy Scout movement
in Indiana.  I shall never forget how  courageously he stood by his convictions
and was willing to do anything to  help a younger brother executive.</p>
<p>He devotetd his life to the Boy  Scouts of America.  He loved boys sincerely
and enjoyed his work every day  he lived.  Our chief built a monument to himself
in the lives of people  forever.</p>
</blockquote>

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

confirmed with 2002010303 mozilla windows build on win2K. Reassigning to Layout
and default compoenent assignee.

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Attachment: Source of the URL with broken images

Interestingly enough, if the images are broken, this works fine.  I just copied
the source directly from the site given in the URL, however since we're on a
different server the images are broken.  I tried adding height and width
attributes to the image and that showed the broken behaviour, still.. 
Nonetheless, it could be related to some reflow.

Reporter, also note that your HTML isn't truly as valid as you think: The cite
attribute of <blockquote> is defined to be a URI, not any arbitrary text. "Mr.
Wilson" is not a valid URI.  See
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-BLOCKQUOTE

However correcting that locally by including a valid URI and removing the cite
attribute altogether didn't fix this.  I see this on Linux 2002-01-03-08. 
OS->All

Comment 3

[Brant Gurganus]

Attachment: Problem fixed by removing style sheet line.

The reason the 63449 attachment worked is because the style sheet link was
broken as well.  I tinkered with the file, first removing the entire blockquote
style and then narrowed it to the line-height: 0%.  I determined I did not
need, nor actually want this line.  It was left over from some previous style
debugging.  Mozilla was interpereting the CSS correctly.  I would think,
though, that if the line height was 0%, nothing would be displayed.

Comment 4

[Brant Gurganus]

My previous comment explains the resolution to this bug.  Mozilla had no 
problem in interpereting the CSS correctly.

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

This was a problem on the authoring end, not on the user agent end.  It has 
been fixed by the author.