Closed Bug 189758 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

<p> tag has whitespace rendered above text when DOCTYPE defined, but no space without DOCTYPE

Categories

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mathgod79, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Well, I think this is a bug. If this is aprt of some HTML spec, please let me know. Basically, look at the following pages: http://www.chris.caseyhome.com/htmltop.html http://www.chris.caseyhome.com/html4top.html http://www.chris.caseyhome.com/xhtmltop.html You'll see that the text without a DOCTYPE definition in the html is rendered very close to the top edge. The pages with HTML 4.01 and XHTML DOCTYPES is pushed down from the edge. IE doesn't push the text down for any of the above URLs, and it seems to me that the text shouldn't be pushed down at all, or should be pushed down no matter what the DOCTYPE is (or not defined). I assume this problem exists because there is supposed to be some space between <p> lines, so Mozilla may be putting a little space above and below each <p> section, but I don't think there should be any space rendered above the text if <p> is at the top of the page. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Basically, look at the following pages: http://www.chris.caseyhome.com/htmltop.html http://www.chris.caseyhome.com/html4top.html http://www.chris.caseyhome.com/xhtmltop.html Actual Results: You'll see mozilla positions the text a bit differently depending on the doctype. Expected Results: I think the text should be positioned at the top of the page (no space above it), like it is in the first URL. IE does it this way. Even if there should be space, Mozilla should put the text at the same position regardless of the doctype.
Yes, this effect is desired for DOCTYPE. Read http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/. When you put document to standarts mode using doctype, Mozilla try to apply every w3c recomendations, so there could not be collapsing border with <p> and viewport. But in quirks mode (wich emulate buggie behaviour of other browsers), margin-top:0 rule apply, and border colapse occured. In standarts mode to produce border-colapse designer SHOULD manualy set margin to 0.
OK, well, I have the <body style="margin:0;"> on those pages, which is what you seem to suggest, but that still doesn't get rid of the space on top. Did I misundarstand you, or is it impossible to get rid of the border if I use the doctype?
Not <body>, <p style="margin: 0px">, read http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/layout/html/document/src/quirk.css#122 for style of quirk mode, wich you want to emulate
I realy think this bug is same with bug 189673, so it should be resolved as INVALID (once again, to produce border-colapse between body and P author should use style="margin: 0px" for both body and <p> tag).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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