150217 - Character left out on line break in A HREF tag

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 149364

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jens Fallesen]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020608
BuildID:    2002060816

In a table cell of fixed width, when the line may need to be breaked, sometimes
the first character inside an A HREF tag may be left out incase there is a tag
starting right after it, e.g. a B tag:

<A href="foobar">Test</A> <A href="foobar">(<B>10</B>/20)</A>

See the example on http://www.avic.gg/mozilla/hreftbl.html.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Go to http://www.avic.gg/mozilla/hreftbl.html. The behaviour can also seen when
logged into some sites with discussion forums.

Actual Results:  The example above would be rendered like this:

Test 10/20)

Expected Results:  The example should be rendered like this:

Test (10/20)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Seeing this on linux build 2002-06-07-08 as well.  The "(" is in the DOM
according to Inspector, but is not shown...

Comment 2

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149364 ***

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

Verified.