205760 - Gaps in pages with nested tables and html entities

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 157703

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[AlexanderS-n]

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

After I upgraded from Mozilla 1.1 to Mozilla 1.3, numerous web pages such as
amazon.de were rendered with large gaps and a scrollbar out of proportion.
When I tried to reproduce the bug by reducing the HTML code further and further,
I found that the bug appears under very peculiar circumstances, one of them
being that it appears in a page containing the string xä but not xa
(nothing else changed).

I attach the HTML file and leave this to the professionals -- this is an
extremely annoying bug as it (a) breaks the top down navigation due to the
scrollbar problems and (b) appears on many pages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://privat.svensson.de/bugzilla.htm
or http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RJ7N/
or many ebay.de pages (e.g.
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2730088379&category=4602)
2. Scroll down
Actual Results:  
There is large gap: The table background is stretched for many dozens of pages
(when scrolling further down).

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should display the content without any gaps.

Comment 1

[AlexanderS-n]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157703 ***