181706 - text overlapping when line-height is specified for the <p> tag in a stylesheet

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Patrick McLean]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021017
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021017

This is a problem I noticed at www.arstechnica.com on 23/11/2002, I put up a
mirror with the problem because the site should be putting up a workaround soon.
The text overlaps, it is fixed when I take out the line-height specification
from the css.

Apparently this only affects Linux, windows is not affected, so I'm assuming its
a mozilla bug, not a problem with the page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to URL above
2. Notice the unreadable text
3.

Actual Results:  
Lines in the text in the page seem to overlap with each other, and are unreadable.

Expected Results:  
Lines should be seperate and easily readable.

Running Mozilla 1.2b RPM build on RedHat 7.3 with gtk 1.2.10.

Comment 1

[Patrick McLean]

Attachment: screenshot of problem, in case it doesnt show up on provided url

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

worksforme with linux trunk build 20021123 and 1.2b
do you see this with a clean profile?

Comment 3

[Patrick McLean]

Yes, I tried wiping my profile, and I still get the problem.

Comment 4

[Patrick McLean]

Odd, I tried it again this morning (maybe it was something in my X server) and
it seems to work fine. Maybe there was some corruption with my font server?

Comment 5

[Alexey Chernyak]

WORKSFORME per comment #4

Comment 6

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

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