138891 - aol.com - AOL hometown: bullet on one line, text on the next ...

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Eric Krock]

Compare the format of bullets on this page in IE6 vs. Moz 0.9.9 (on Win XP Pro):

http://hometown.aol.com/flanker.adp?cid=10000&fType=best&l=english&sessionId=1019347090%2e107546

Look down at the middle of the page. The bullet is on one line, and the the text
for that bullet is on the next line. Over and over again.

Expect this is IE-specific HTML/CSS. Is there a "placement of
images with CSS" bug in IE that causes this problem? Note that this appears to
be the same problem as in bug 135265.

Comment 1

[Eric Krock]

Page also looks fine in Nav4.79 on XP Pro. Can't believe that no one has filed a
bug on hometown.aol.com if this has been in here all along; any chance this is a
Gecko regression in 0.9.9?

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

ok. the relevant markup is:

<li><p><a href="...">foo</a>, bar<br>

multline blurb
<br>
<br>

and that the <li> occurs inside a cell but not inside a <ul>. This is such
horrible, generation 4, invalid markup crap, but it might be a candidate
compatibility fix in quirks mode. 

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: testcase

Note if you enclosed this <li> in a <ul>, the bullet will be on the same line
as the initial text.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

->evang500

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

also http://hometown.aol.com/help.adp?cid=10000&l=english

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

fixed.