187562 - bea.com - Anchors within words break format

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Jürgen Weber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021227
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021227

In the URL above are anchors within words. This is displayed wrong in Mozilla
but works in IE and Opera.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Ian Graham]

This is a result of really bad markup combined with a style sheet. Example
markup producing the rendering oddity is:

<a name="1127954"><p class="headmain">Configuring WebLogic S</p></a><a
name="security"></a>ecurity<p></p>

And the associated style sheet rule is:

p.headmain {
       MARGIN-LEFT: 0.15in; 
       MARGIN-RIGHT: 0; 
       MARGIN-TOP: 0.1in; 
       MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0; 
       FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
       FONT-WEIGHT: bold; 
       FONT-SIZE: 18pt;
       COLOR: black;
}

I attempted to build a reduced testcase, but gave up after several tries -- it's
easy to keep the rendering consistent on mOzilla, but even minor changes change
the rendering on IE 5.5 (i.e. minor changes make the IE rendering look like
Mozilla's)

This is probably an evangelization issue for good markup?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That code has a paragraph break in the middle of the word.... It's not that it's
bad markup, it's that IE just plain renders it wrong for some reason.

Comment 3

[Susie Wyshak]

Seems to me that IE renders it correctly, forgiving the bad code. 
-->Doron please email them.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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