Closed Bug 121878 Opened 23 years ago Closed 11 years ago

HTML attachment overlaps other content when using position:absolute

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(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Attachments
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 31052

People

(Reporter: nick, Unassigned)

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(2 files)

Testcase1.eml: Message with position:absolute in body of attached HTML file
1.80 KB, message/rfc822
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Screenshot 1: Testcase1.eml displayed in TB: HTML attachment's inline preview overlaps message body, causing visual havoc
38.28 KB, image/png
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I've attached an HTML document to a newsgroup which used "position: absolute;
top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right; 0px; left: 0px" and it overlapped other MIME parts
in the message. It seems that coordinates are relative to the message window,
instead of being relative to the attachment area. The message is posted in
n.p.m.style and this is the URL:
news://news.mozilla.org:119/3C510B16.1010104@technisys.com.ar .

I'm using build 2002012408
When I go to the URL I see a (pretty broken -- charset) text message. Does the
problem still happen? If so, please attach the message in question.

pi
Well, of course. You need to open it in mail-news, not in the browser. The post
was (looking in the headers) in netscape.public.mozilla.style .

I've just reproduced it again in a recent Mozilla, confirming.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I just ran into this problem with:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030306

Here is HTML code that reproduces the problem when viewed as an inline email
attachment:

<html>
<head>
<title>Mozilla bug</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="position:absolute; top:0px">
    This is inside of <b>div</b> w/ <b>style="position:absolute; top:0px"</b>.
    <br>
    <i>
    When viewed as an inline email attachement it 
    is displayed over the top of the message text, 
    not down below in the inline attachment area.
    </i>
</div>
</body>

</html>
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Still see the problem with:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
bug #221559 seems to be a duplicate. It contains another file for triggering the
bug. Still happening with mozilla 1.7.7.

*** Bug 186316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 221559 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This occurs in TB as well; moving to Core.
Component: MailNews: Main Mail Window → MailNews: Attachments
OS: Linux → All
Product: Mozilla Application Suite → Core
Hardware: PC → All
I'm not sure if this is helpful, but I have determined that position:absolute works correctly if top and bottom are not set, or are set to auto.  This might not apply to all cases, but it did work for my local installation of TWiki (http://www.twiki.org) where I removed top from .twikiLeftBar in layout.css.
Assignee: mail → nobody
QA Contact: esther → attachments
Product: Core → MailNews Core
Can someone try to reproduce this bug with a recent build of TB (http://stage.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/downloads/) , and comment here telling us if this issue is still present in the product ?
I have reproduced the problem with TB 3.0b2.  I created an HTML email using the HTML in Comment #4.  I then forwarded that email as an attachment.  When the attachment is displayed inline, the text inside <div style="position:absolute; top:0px"> is displayed at the top of the message body area, overlapping the message body text, not at the bottom of the message body area below the attached emails headers where it should be.  Please email me directly if you need help reproducing this.
It can also be reproduced using the current seamonkey-1.0.9-35.el4.centos RPM on CentOS/RHEL 4.7.
Dupe of the bug about not applying attachment css to the mail body as well. (Can't find it atm.)
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Testcase1.eml message using HTML attachment from comment 4.
Confirming bug as described: inline preview of HTML attachment leaks into message body text, making both unreadable. TB is always good for astonishment.
(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #14)
> Dupe of the bug about not applying attachment css to the mail body as well.
> (Can't find it atm.)

Magnus, thanks for setting Dupeme flag on whiteboard, that's very helpful to follow up on these as I'm doing atm. Every hint helps, and this sort of proves my point that we should encourage Ben to accept longer summaries with generic search words so that it's easier to find duplicates...
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
See Also: → 741696
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