203520 - when using innerHTML property of DIV tag, it doesnt paint some HTML Buttons correctly sometimes

Status: NEW

(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

I have detailed what the problem looks like and how to reproduce here:

http://hyzer.org/chris/mozilla/

(copied from the above website)
- I have a large Javascript application that shows sets of flashcards 
- When I change the screen layout, I set the innerHTML property of DIV and SPAN
HTML tags 
- The bug is that sometimes when the innerHTML property (which puts form buttons
inside in this case) is set on a span tag, it doesn't render completely:
    - Sometimes the HTML buttons will not show up at all 
    - Sometimes the HTML buttons will show up partially and are not clickable 
- The current workaround is to click the "maximize" button twice (in the upper
right of the browser on Windows XP) and it will redraw the screen, and the
buttons will be there 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The exact steps with screenshots are detailed here:
http://hyzer.org/chris/mozilla/
Actual Results:  
The buttons are not painted correctly (need to use the app for a very little
while to see it)

Expected Results:  
The buttons should be displayed and clickable

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Seeing this on current linux trunk too....

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

This reminds of bug 161888