180481 - absolute positioning ignored

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 175590

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Eyal Rozenberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021113

In the test case (first attachment), each cell row has 3 cells: one (#img-links)
is intended to take ~40px on the left part, another (#text-links) to take up a
little more than 1 line's height from the top , with its left edge touching the
right edge of the first cell, and the third (#description) to take up the rest
of the row.

Mozilla seems to be ignoring the 'position: absolute' style property of the
#text-links element (note that the table rows are 'position:relative', so
absolute positioning should be done w.r.t the row, not the whole body).

IE 6.0 renders this properly (I think) - see second attachment.

My build ID is 2002-11-13-08.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Attachment: absolute positioning testcase HTML

Comment 2

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Attachment: proper (?) rendering in MS Internet Explorer 6

Comment 3

[Eyal Rozenberg]

this bug may be related, or even a duplicate, of this bug:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289

But I can't say for sure. Plus I've got cool attachments and they don't :-) 

Comment 4

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

also related: bug 63895. Reporter, you mustn't have multiple elements with the
same id in one document
(<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-id>), use class
(<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-class>) instead. Changing
the testcase to use class attribs doesn't change the result though.

Comment 5

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Attachment: corrected absolute positioning testcase HTML

replaced 'id' with 'class' to comply with HTML DTD. Results are indeed the same

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 175590 ***