184429 - Display / rendering problem with DHTML ( nested inline/none - rendering elements)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 79315

(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I use 
<table style="display: none;" ...

to create hidden elements on my Intranet-Page. With

document.getElementById(ElementID).style.display="inline";
document.getElementById(ElementID).style.display="none";


I display (or hide) the Element. I looks fine, until I have nested instances.
With nested instances it seems to render the content when I change the stale to
inline - but I can only see part of the content (looks like a graphic error).
The same code is working fine with IE5+

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
The page behaves as in the MS browser(s), exept that a part of the now rendered
content is just white on the screen (but the other content is moving down - so
the chanche to "inline" was successful - but part of the now visible part is
just white).

Expected Results:  
The browser should also be able to handle nested inline/none-Render sections
proberly.

if you need additional information please feel free to contact me :
[e-mail]

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please attach a small (500 bytes or so should be plenty) testcase using
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=184429&action=enter

Comment 2

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

Note that this will probably work correctly if you set display to "" instead of
"inline", since the default value of display for TABLE elements is "table", not
"inline".

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

Related to bug 135994?

Comment 4

[bugzilla]

Attachment: example code where the problem appears

Comment 5

[bugzilla]

the solution (from [e-mail]) to use "table" instead of "inline" 
in the code solved the rendering-problem... 

thanks to all :-)

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: testcase of a reasonable size

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79315 ***