186256 - sueddeutsche.de - Some pages are way too long - excess blank space at bottom

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: German, defect, P3)

Description

[Tim O']

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

http://www.sueddeutsche.de 's article pages (not the homepage itself) always
have several screens of blank space at the bottom

I'm not into the details of html - so maybe you can look into it and see if it's
a Mozilla-problem or some quirk of IE that does it right

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to www.sueddeutsche.de 
2. click on any headline to go to an article page
3. there will be blank space below the article




Same behavior in Phoenix 0.5

Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

Confirming on 2002121608 Win2k.

Comment 2

[Chris Veenboer]

Mozilla 1.3a
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Windows 2000 SP3

confirming. 
The article pages do have 2 iframes with:
HEIGHT: 10000px;

Which I suppose is the problem...

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

-> Tech Evangelism

the iframes are loaded w/ excessive height, which is correctly by the individual
frame page. The content frame ('if_content') has the correct js code:

function kuerzecontent()
	{
      var doc_height = document.body.offsetHeight 
      alert(doc_height);
   if (top != self && document.all)   {
      var doc_height=document.body.scrollHeight
	  top.document.all.if_content.style.height = doc_height+10+"px";
	}
   if (top != self && document.getElementById && !document.all)   {
      var doc_height = document.body.offsetHeight 
	  top.document.getElementById('if_content').style.height = doc_height+10+"px";
	}
 }
 onload = kuerzecontent

the right frame (if_info), however, doesn't:

function kuerzerechts()
{
if (top != self && document.all)
	{
      var doc_height=document.body.scrollHeight
      top.document.all.if_info.style.height = doc_height+10+"px";
	}
}

other frames, which I did not check, may have incorrect code

Comment 4

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

move...

Comment 5

[webmanaks74-posts]

I also see this occassionally, at http://www.globalissues.org -- you will have
to follow through to any article other than the home page. Sometimes you will
get a lot of blank space. Other times, you will get a little bit, and other
times you won't get any. If I resize the text (ctrl-+) then the blank space
vanishes. If I refresh, the blank space vanishes. The only new CSS added was as
follows in order to center the pages, and provide a border around everything:

html { 
	background:#e0d0c0; /* #eee; */
	padding:0.2em 0;
}

body {
	width:59em;
	margin:0.2em auto!important;
	border:1px solid #f09030; /* #ddd; */
}

#content-container:after {
	content:"";
	border:1px solid #f8f8f8;
	display:block;
	clear:both;
}

The two main content blocks float left and right. 

HTML validates (though could of course be improved, especially the divs and the
CSS!). CSS validates other than box model hack and one or two other things that
have been there for months.

I cannot reproduce this on a local dev machine, perhaps because all the content
comes back very quickly...?

Comment 6

[webmanaks74-posts]

Just wanted to add, that disabling JavaScript does not alleviate the problem, so
am not sure this is related to JS.

Also, this looks similar to issue number 283369 and it happens in Mozilla and
Firefox

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed