165043 - lostcommunity.org - Text Area displaying as single line instead of multi-line.

Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 161583

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Dave Lowe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

<textarea style="height:100%;width:100%;" id="ta" name="msgtext" rows="16" 
cols="60" wrap="virtual"></textarea>

In Mozilla < v1.1, displays fine.  In IE 6, displays fine.  Under Mozilla 
v1.1, the text area displays as a single half-height line (half-height in that 
as you type, you only see the top half of the letters you are typing).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Navigate to http://www.lostcommunity.org
2.  Click on "go to the discussion boards" link, top-right of page.
3.  Choose a forum (any will do)
4.  Click on "New Topic" link, top-left of page.
5.  Should be able to see the text area next to the "Message:" static text.

Actual Results:  
Text area is single row, half-height.

Expected Results:  
Text area should take up entire width of table cell (it does) and have 
multiple rows displaying.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Works in: 2002-06-02-21
Broken in:  2002-06-03-21

Not quite sure what in that range would have caused this to regress... the only
layout-ish patch there is the nsFormFrame removal...

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

slightly edited code:

<form><table width="100%" height="100%">
<tr>
  <td height="20" width="80">Author:</td>
  <td><input type="text" size="35" maxlength=35 value=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td height="20" width="80">Email:</td>
  <td><input type="text" size="35" maxlength=35 value=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td height="20" width="80">Subject:</td>
  <td><input type="text" size=100 maxlength=100></td></tr>
<tr>
  <td width="80" valign=top>Message:</td>
  <td valign=top>
	<textarea style="height:100%;width:100%;" rows="16" cols="60"></textarea>
   </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td height="20">&nbsp;</td>
  <td><input type="submit" value="Post Message"></td>
</tr>
</table></form>

--
I don't think <table> does height="100%". Even if it does, it doesn't
make any sense since table is not inside another table or styled div.
In the case of <textarea style="height:100%;width:100%;" ..>,
apparently css rules take precedence and since Mozilla doesn't know
what height:100% really means, only one line is shown.

btw, if 
  <td valign=top><textarea ...></textarea>
is changed to
  <td valign=top height="###"><textarea ...></textarea>
textarea would have multiple lines (since Mozilla has some value to
compute textarea height against).

remove regression keyword (Boris, do you agree with this?)
send to Tech Evangelism

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

see also bug 161583

Comment 4

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

WFM in a current Mozilla build, Windows NT. Reporter, do you still see the problem?

Comment 5

[Frankie]

Sounds like this only happened in certain 1.1 builds.

WFM Mozilla nightly 2003022709.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161583 ***

Comment 6

[Dave Lowe]

Either the site has changed so things work, or whatever was causing it within 
Mozilla no longer causes it.  Can no be reproduced with latest.