17629 - table cells in bonzai overlaps each other

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Tomi Leppikangas]

Table cell contents are larger than cells and they overlap. Effet is
seen by loading above url. Same thing hapens on all bonzai queries
that sends table that is wider than screen.

Strange thing thougt that if you load that page and save it, and load
from file, it renders correctly. Maybe something do with incremental
reflow?

This is tested on linux rh 6.0 builded 10/30/99

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Works for me using 1999-10-31-09-M11 on Windows 98 SE.

Comment 2

[Sean Richardson]

Attachment: Reduced testcase: offending table inside unclosed table

Comment 3

[Sean Richardson]

The problem shows up in the "Makfile.in Change Log" table at the top of the
page generated by the URL above. The table cell contents contain e-mail
addresses that can't be wrapped. NN 4.7 correctly allows the table to be wider
than the browser window and adds a horizontal scroll bar. Mozilla limits the
table width to the browser window width, and incorrectly lets the contents of
each cell overlap into the next. Very visible as the table has borders.

As seen by the reporter, the page displays properly if saved and viewed from
a local disk (even if served by a local webserver).

The reduced testcase attachment shows the same problem differently. Instead of
the contents of each cell overlapping into the next, the first few cells
display correctly and then the last four pile up atop one another hideously.

Does not work correctly with:
Windows NT 4.0sp3, mozilla.exe, 1999-11-07-08-M11 nightly binary
Windows NT 4.0sp3, mozilla.exe, 1999-11-08-09-M11 nightly binary

Works correctly with:
Windows NT 4.0sp3, NN 4.7

Additional Information:
The HTML generated by bonsai for this cgi request has an obvious problem:
There is a <TABLE> (immediately following <BODY>) that seems to be meant to
enclose the whole page, but has no closing tag (in any case, there are 9
opening <TABLE> tags and only 8 closing </TABLE> tags). This is reflected in
the reduced testcase.

Comment 4

[Sean Richardson]

Something else: the first <TD> cell in the offending table row has the
NOWRAP attribute, while the cells that were having text extend into the next
do *not*.

With the 1999-11-09-11-M11 nightly binary on Windows NT 4.0sp3,
this one is getting wierd:
1. with gfx-scrollbars on, the testcase displays properly but the URL is
   messed up as bad as before.
2. with native scrollbars, the testcase shows only some of the cells,
   and then crashes. URL untested.

Comment 5

[Sean Richardson]

Placing URL and attachment URL inside Description to work around a
current display bug:

http://cvs-mirror.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?subdir=mozilla&files=
Makefile.in&command=DIRECTORY&branch=&root=/cvsroot

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=2731

Comment 6

[Sean Richardson]

With native scrollbars, the URL is still displaying incorrectly as originally
reported.

The testcase is still showing only some of the cells, but the crash now waits
until the browser is commanded to go back to the previous page.

Here's an odd one: if the cursor is click-dragged horizontally below the table,
the contents of the cells are highlighted. This suggests that Mozilla currently
is stopping adding cells when there is no more room, rather than overlapping
them as before, but the table is not actually closed.

Tested with 1999-11-10-16-M11 on Windows NT 4.0sp3.

Comment 7

[Tomi Leppikangas]

Looks like this is fixed now, at least i dont see any owerlapping anymore.
(Linux, build date 12/08/99)
Marking as fixed.

Comment 8

[Sean Richardson]

WORKSFORME - for both the URL and the testcase, the table is correctly
displayed wider than the browser window, and no overlapping of cell contents
takes place - with today's nightly binary but not yesterday's.

Works Correctly With:
1999-12-08-08-M12 nightly binary on Windows NT 4.0sp3

Does Not Work Correctly With:
1999-12-07-09-M12 nightly binary on Windows NT 4.0sp3

Additional information:
Did not check whether Bonsai is still sending out tables inside unclosed
tables, but the testcase won't have changed.

Comment 9

[Christine Hoffman]

Tested on Linux using 12/15 build - verified fixed.