119915 - When Cols is not defined no wordwrap occurs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[TucsonTester3]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
BuildID:    2002011308
OS: WinME

When Cols is not defined no wordwrap occurs

Using the HTML Forms casebase Textarea test, when Cols is defined wordwrap 
occurs, when no cols definition no word wrap occurs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open NS Browser to Forms control testing
2.scroll down to Control Type :- Textarea
3.select WrapHard.HTML or any other test area that follows
4.open selected test case and enter test with spaces


Actual Results:  on test cases where COLS is not defined, no word wrap occurs
It continues on a horizontal path and creates a Horizantal scroll bar

Expected Results:  In the testcases where COLS is not defined Wordwrap should 
take effect at end of textarea without the need to hit enter

Comment 1

[TucsonTester3]

Also seen in Mac
changing to all/all

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

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Comment 3

[TucsonTester3]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 4

[michael wendell]

Adding testcase keyword.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 132866 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 134928 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 141629 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 142132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[TucsonTester3]

Also seen in windows 2000, changed OS to "all"

Comment 10

[michael wendell]

Re-adding the CC's that were accidentally removed.

Comment 11

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 143757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Malcolm Scott]

Note also that no wrapping occurs even if the width is set by CSS (e.g.
style="width: 200px") unless there is a Cols attribute (the value of the Cols
attribute is, in this case, ignored - but it must be present for wrapping to occur).

See http://www.newhouses.f2s.com/mozilla_testing/textarea_wrap.html and bug 143757.

Comment 13

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Note: Cols is a #required attribute of TextArea it is not optional.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-TEXTAREA

Comment 14

[Malcolm Scott]

Surely it's OK to set the size using CSS (e.g. style="width: 200px") instead of
cols= ?

Still, no excuse for the odd wrapping behaviour.

Comment 15

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

nsbeta1-. Not a "stop ship" bug

Comment 16

[kinmoz]

*** Bug 158803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Vladimir Ermakov]

*** Bug 166478 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[gavin long]

Newsflash:  The testcase wraps just fine and dandy in 2002100714, winXP. 
Somebody musta fixed something by accident...

Comment 19

[Malcolm Scott]

Yep, both the attached testcase and my testcase (see comment 12) now seem to
work fine (2002101508 Linux).

Comment 20

[kinmoz]

Yeah this was fixed with the checkin for bug 164641 ... I just forgot to close
this bug out as fixed.