123540 - ULs with `display: inline' sometimes do not wrap correctly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P4)

Description

[Nathan Froyd]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.0.2 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20011224
BuildID:    Mozilla 0.9.7

On my links page, I have several UL elements with the display set to `inline'. 
If your browser window is fairly wide, then everything looks fine.  But as you
decrease the width of your browser window, you will notice that some of the
lists wrap correctly, whereas some stay the same.  You therefore end up with
this nasty scrollbar at the bottom and unobvious non-liquid behavior.

For me, the minimum size where things don't look ugly (i.e. there is no
scrollbar) is about 1000px wide.  This may be slightly different on your
computer.  It somehow looks like Mozilla isn't recalculating box sizes in
certain situations.  Funny thing is that if you size the window to progressively
larger sizes, everything gets laid out correctly, modulo the excessively large
right margin on the BODY.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Surf to http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~froydnj/links.html
2. Resize browser window to something less than 600 pixels or so.  Play around
with sizes if necessary.
3. Observe that some of the lists wrap correctly, while some of them don't.

Expected Results:  The wrapping of each list should be consistent, i.e. a
scrollbar should not appear at the bottom of the screen

Comment 1

[Chris Petersen]

Changing QA Contact

Comment 2

[Moied]

Confirmed with build ID 20020214 on win2k

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page has consecutive inlines containing text and no whitespace between them;
that is the only thing preventing wrapping...

Marking invalid, but please reopen if I'm missing something here...