138455 - Right aligned (float: right) content with absolute width cannot be accessed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 138505

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Mikko Rantalainen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020412
BuildID:    2002041217

If a block-level element has absolute width (like 500px) and it's right aligned
and viewport width is less than the absolute width of the element (500px) the
element's content cannot be accessed. When viewport is too narrow IE6 renders
all the elements in the test case exactly the same (right aligned looks like
left aligned).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open attached test case
2. Resize browser window so that viewport width is less than 500px

Actual Results:  Content inside right aligned table or div is inaccessible
because scroll is allowed to right only. 

Expected Results:  Something like how IE6 renders this. There shouldn't be any
difference between left and right floated elements when viewport is narrower
than the element. Mozilla should get this right for other elements but tables,
too. Alternately, all the content should be accessible with scrollbar (scrolling
to left from normal position would feel really weird though.

Tested with W98se only, but I guess this applies to all platforms.

Comment 1

[Mikko Rantalainen]

Attachment: Test case for float:right bug (inaccessible content)

Resize browser window so that viewport is narrower than 500px.

Comment 2

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138505 ***

Comment 3

[Laura Krietemeyer]

Changing QA Contact

Comment 4

[Moied]

verified dup of 138505 -