18652 - tables overlap because of rendering on wrong absolute location

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[mahjongg]

this page contains several tables that should be placed underneath each other
with some space between each.
Instead they are being drawn in such a way so that they overlap each other.
This is propably an error in the handling of the structure

DIV#Table3LYR { position:absolute;.....

I have included a .GIF file of the result and the HTML source code that
produces this error.
PS. somewhere on www.ultiboard.com i also found some text that was rendered on
top of a picture of a piece of "old paper" where the text appears to be drawn
too low in relation to the picture. Perhaps a result of the same bug.

Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape 4 rendered these pages correct.
Tested with seamonkey 1999111016

Comment 1

[mahjongg]

Attachment: gif picture showing the overlapping tables

Comment 2

[mahjongg]

Attachment: source code demonstrating the bug

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (:mats)]

IMHO, this is just bad HTML. The first table is in a LAYER coded as:
<LAYER TOP=300 LEFT=107 WIDTH=496 HEIGHT=236 Z-INDEX=1>
and the second is in:
<LAYER TOP=566 LEFT=106 WIDTH=495 HEIGHT=236 Z-INDEX=2>

Clearly this will not work considering that font size varies.
Corrected the URL.

Comment 4

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

INVALID. LAYER, ILAYER, document.layers[] not supported in Gecko/Nav5. Closed.
Notified reporter and site owner via template at
http://sites.netscape.net/ekrock/fixit/layer.html
In the future, please INVALID, notify, and close such bugs directly using that
template without assigning to me. Thanks!

Comment 5

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified bug invalid.