165688 - First few paragraphs shown OK, but some subsequent paragraphs not displayed; but same HTML displays correctly with other browsers.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58917

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Roger Howorth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020828
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020828

Simple HTML document constructed using <p> ... </p>. Most paragraphs are
displayed correctly. Some paragraphs are not displayed. No blank line in their
place.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load documnet. Note 5th line begins with text "eWeek: [number]", 6th line is
a link beginning "http://rogerh"; and 7th line begins "Wordcount".
2. Scroll down to next occurence of "=======ENDS=======". Note just below this
line the structure of pars restarts -- eg headline, eWeek, http://rogerh,
Wordcount, etc....
3. Note that all paragraphs are shown correctly.
3. Scroll to bottom of doc, and then back up to nearest "======ENDS". Note that
the headline paragraph is not displayed.
Actual Results:  
At some point in the doc, some paragraphs (Headline in the supplied doc) are not
displayed.

Expected Results:  
It should always display these (all) pararaphs.

Occurs using previous builds of Mozilla. Occurs using w32; mac osx; and Linux
builds.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

that would be because of all the unclosed <font> tags.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58917 ***

Comment 2

[Olav Vitters]

verified