148643 - Text overlaps other table elements

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Rogério Araújo]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

The table elements doesn't stay on your correct position / place

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.It's simple, go to www.xmethods.com and the footer text appears at middle of
the page.


Actual Results:  I had checked the source code of page and the element is a
table after a span element.

Expected Results:  The text in the middle of the page must be in the end of the
page.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: testcase

the height of the div tag is specified and is much smaller than it needs to be
to contain the table.  I added a red border to the div.  The out-of-place text
follows the div rather than table.

There doesn't seem to be anything particularly buggy about Mozilla's
behavior...
Evang?

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

shows up with linux build 20020602
OS=>All
marking NEW.

Comment 3

[Richard Godbee]

I think this is evang -- the relevant part of the CSS specs is 
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visufx.html#overflow-clipping  (Notice the 
example -- a BLOCKQUOTE that's too big for its DIV.)

The overflow property determines what happens when a box's content is bigger 
than the box.  The initial value is "visible", which means the content renders 
outside of the box.  In this bug's case, since the DIV is absolutely sized, the 
content shouldn't affect the DIV's size or the position of the next element 
after the DIV.

Opera shows the same behavior as Mozilla.  IE, on the other hand, expands the 
DIV to be large enough to completely contain its contents.  I think the page is 
relying on IE's incorrect behavior...

Comment 4

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

-> Evang

Comment 5

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

page got fixed.

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

us general for now