168787 - overflow:scroll leads to wrong-placed and unnecessary sroll-bars

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 145212

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[tloehnert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020826

The main-content of this page is located only in the upper quarter of the screen
and framed by vertical and horizontal scroll-bars; rest of screen is empty.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/document/l-90.htm
Actual Results:  
wrong-placed sroll-bars in the upper quarter of the window

Expected Results:  
correct-placed scrollbars - if necessary at all - and page content should be
displayed throughout the window

workaround: eliminate the command "overflow:scroll" in
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/css/avalon.css

probably related bugs: 

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57476
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93905

Comment 1

[Ere Maijala (slow)]

Attachment: Simplified test case

This simple test page shows the problem.

Comment 2

[Copperfield]

*** Bug 174152 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The mis-sizing has been fixed by roc's checkin for overflow:scroll sizing.  The
presence of the scrollbars is correct.  Marking duplicate of the bug roc fixed,
since the rendering on this site is now exactly correct.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145212 ***