198257 - body.clientHeight is incorrect when overflow is auto.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Maksim Likharev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

reported value for clientHeight is incorrect ( basically equal to size of biggest
element inside a body ) when style overflow:auto

see example:
2 files in zip:
html-auto.htm
html-def.htm
see value in status bar for body and inner div.
funny thing is, it draws correctly, fill all client area.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Maksim Likharev]

Attachment: overflow is auto

Comment 2

[Maksim Likharev]

Attachment: default

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, if you put a border on tbe <body> you will see that it draws correctly
and does _NOT_ fill the client area in both cases....

This is a duplicate.

Comment 4

[Maksim Likharev]

To  Boris Zbarsky

Duplicate of what, bug number please.

Comment 5

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

This might be bug 62536.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Forget it.  Looking for the original is not worth it.  The point is that if the
body itself is not scrollable and in quirks mode only we map the body's
clientHeight/scrollHeight/etc to the viewport for IE compat.  If the body is
scrollable, then we actually use the properties of the body itself.