192530 - Large amount of vertical whitespace below a link

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 184714

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jan Kunzmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Sometimes, a very large amount (more than 500 page heights) of vertical
whitespace is shown below a line which contains a link. Mouse cursor changes to
finger pointer when moved below the link, and selecting the line selects also
the whitespace below the link.

I assume that the renderer miscalculates the height of the link under some
circumstances.

The bug goes when window is resized so that the link is broken into two lines.
Changing the browser preferences to any other standard font face or font size or
restarting Mozilla does NOT solve the problem.

I've also seen this bug sometimes on the page http://dict.leo.org too; the
whitespace is inserted below the headline "An Online Service by Informatik der
Technischen Universität München". I can not reproduce it every time.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the URL above.
2. Resize your browser window so that the link text "Nichts als die Wahrheit
oder Onkel Powells Märchenstunde?" in the second paragraph is not broken into
two lines
3. If you can't see the bug on this page, try surfing around on
http://www.heise.de/tp, i've seen it on other pages there as well.



I've found this problem in Mozilla 1.0 (build unknown) too. May be related to
bug 109532.

Comment 1

[Jan Kunzmann]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 184714 ***