177087 - microsoft.com pages don't display correctly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 159494

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Tim Coote]

I'm concerned that this could be something to do with my machine set up as I
can't find it in bugzilla.
when I load the above url, the main content pane has the text wrongly overlaid.
(I can't attach a file, but, for example, the lines starting with 1,2,3 all
appear in one place.

version of mozilla is 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
xp is un-service packed (I don't like their change in contract terms),
machine is ibm thinkpad t23.

I've put this in as major, but if you do anything with ms support sites, it's
worse than that :-)

tc

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I spent quite a while figuring out what was going on.  IT turns out the problem
is in the stylesheet
http://support.microsoft.com/common/css/GN/en-us/down-other/KBArticle.css ,
which has a number of declarations of the form "margin-bottom: -1%" or
"margin-bottom: -1em".  This are explicit requests for overlap.  Note that
percentages are relative to the width of the containing block.  I'm guessing
that WinIE either doesn't support negative margins correctly or does percentage
vertical margins relative to some height.  (In any case, I'd expect to see the
overlap in MacIE as well.  If true, this might be a good way to point out the
problem to Microsoft.)

In any case, ->evangelism.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

(This could also be a browser-sniffing problem...)

Comment 3

[Rainer Bielefeld]

I think this is a DUP of bug 159494

Comment 4

[Oliver Klee]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159494 ***

Comment 5

[Marcus Campbell]

Verified.