195665 - Manipulating text with document.getElementById(id).innerHTML does not work when used together with positon:fixed

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect)

Description

[Jens Liebchen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

When manipulation a span tag (eg. replacing text) and this span is in a table
which enclosed by a div with position:fixed the old text is deleted but the new
text is _not_ displayed. Seems to be a new issue with Mozilla 1.3(b), worked
fine with Mozilla 1.2.1. See attached example code for this issue.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Use attached demonstration file.
Actual Results:  
Replacement text is not displayed with Mozilla 1.3b.

Expected Results:  
Show up replacement text (in demonstration file: "newtext" should apear)

If position:fixed is removed, everything works like expected. It seems to depend
on the table, too.

Comment 1

[Jens Liebchen]

Attachment: Demonstration html file

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this only a problem with position:fixed or also with position:absolute?  Does
the problem disappear if you give the fixed div a pixel width?

If the answers are "it's a problem with absolute" and "yes", then is this a
problem with a trunk build from tomorrow or later?  A table reflow bug was fixed
today that may address this issue...

Comment 3

[Jens Liebchen]

The bug appears only with position:fixed and does not seem to depend on width.
When you replace position:fixed with position:absolute everything works like
expected (of course with position not fixed then).

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Hmm.. actually, this worksforme with linux trunk build 2003-02-26-08...

Comment 5

[Bernd]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 6

[Bernd]

wfm win98 2003-02-28-14

Comment 7

[Jens Liebchen]

Just tested it with the latest nightly (2003030222). Bug seems to be fixed.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

marking so.

Comment 9

[Morten Nilsen]

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