Closed
Bug 1512059
Opened 7 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
Thunderbird and Firefox don't display scrollbar on HTML document with body style="overflow: hidden;"
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: bsfinkel, Unassigned)
Details
Attachments
(2 files)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0
Steps to reproduce:
I have received mail messages where the body of the message is base64-encoded.
This is 60.3.2 on Windows 7 Professional 32-bit.
Actual results:
Thunderbird displays only part of the message body. When I do a reply, the resulting mail window DOES display the entire message.
Expected results:
Thunderbird should have displayed the entire message body. I assume that the base64-encoded piece is not corrupted, as it is displayed in its entirely when I do a reply. I have attached the full RFC 5322 mail headers and message.
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Comment 1•7 years ago
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We love reporters who report full details and supply all the needed evidence.
This case is very weird; the e-mail displays in full if you open it in a tab/window and make that tab/window big enough. You can also use "View > Zoom Out" (Ctrl and -).
However, for some reason no scrollbar is displayed for that message. I've decoded the base64 part at https://www.base64decode.org/ and I'm attaching it here as HTML document. It's pretty horrible HTML and Firefox doesn't show a scrollbar either.
I'll close this bug as INVALID, since it's a rendering problem of the HTML of the message. However, I'll ask a layout person on the Firefox team why the HTML isn't rendered with scrollbars (and consequently TB doesn't show any either). One thing you can do is get back to Senator Richard J. Durbin and tell him not to send such horribly formatted messages.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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Comment 2•7 years ago
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Emilio, you're on the layout team (and a TB user), could you tell us why FF doesn't display a scrollbar for this? It's not a bug, is it?
Flags: needinfo?(emilio)
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Updated•7 years ago
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Summary: Thunderbird Doe Not Display Entire base64-encoded Mail. → Thunderbird and Firefox don't display scrollbar on HTML document
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Comment 3•7 years ago
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I've got it, they have that in the HTML: <body style="overflow: hidden;" ...
That really is extremely bad style on behalf of the Senator :-(
Flags: needinfo?(emilio)
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Updated•7 years ago
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Summary: Thunderbird and Firefox don't display scrollbar on HTML document → Thunderbird and Firefox don't display scrollbar on HTML document with body style="overflow: hidden;"
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Comment 4•7 years ago
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Thanks for the reply. I am a retired IT professional (25+ years IBM mainframe systems programmer, and 10+ years Unix sysadmin + E-mail + DNS), so I know that proper documentation is essential. I never worked with HTML, so I would not know at what I was looking. I do know that CSS is Cascading Style Sheets, but I have no idea what they are.
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Comment 5•7 years ago
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As a workaround, you can select:
View -> Message Body AS -> Simple HTML
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