214121 - Form autocomplete appears in wrong place (position: absolute)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Matt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030726 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030726 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

If a form is nested in two absolutely positioned DIV tags (it may be other
absolutely positioned elements), then the autocomplete list will appear in the
wrong place (it will appear presumably where the field would be were it not for
the second DIV tag).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the example page
2. Start filling in the page's single form with keywords likly to trigger an
autocmplete box
3. Notice how the autocomplete box appears in the wrong location

Actual Results:  
Autocomplete was in the wrong place.

Expected Results:  
Put the autocomplete box in the right place (i.e. underneath the box)

Comment 1

[Matt]

Attachment: Screenshot of autocomplete

Comment 2

[David P James]

Taking QA. Sorry for the bugspam

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Confirming on 20030729 with W2K

Comment 4

[David P James]

Seeing in Linux as well.

OS --> All

Comment 5

[Bob Firth]

*** Bug 220068 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Bob Firth]

*** Bug 224582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 225907 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Jean-Marc]

Still occurs with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031228
Firebird/0.7+
while posting to The Burning Edge (!) - WinXP SP1

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

I can't see the dropdown at all on
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/archives/000236.html.  Keypresses act as
if the dropdown were there, so I guess it's just way offscreen.  My resolution
is 800x600.

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

Same problem on http://www.lycos.de/, which uses position:relative.

Comment 11

[Christopher Eppstein]

Has this bug been abandoned? Joe Hewitt has "(gone)" in his name.

Comment 12

[David P James]

"This" bug hasn't been abandoned; rather, the entire Autocomplete component has
essentially been "abandoned" until such time as someone takes over from Joe
Hewitt. See bug 222184.

Comment 13

[José Jeria]

www.lycos.de and testcase is WFM.
build: 20040302, Windows 2000

Comment 14

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM at http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/archives/000236.html too.  I wonder
when/how this was fixed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040219
Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 15

[Kaki]

*** Bug 236985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 239650 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Randy Peterman]

This bug still exists in FireFox 0.9 on Windows with dual monitors.  Position
the secondary monitor to the left of the primary monitor and all toolbar,
autocomplete and bookmark popups open up in the right hand monitor ('primary'
monitor)

Comment 18

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #17)
> This bug still exists in FireFox 0.9 on Windows with dual monitors.  Position
> the secondary monitor to the left of the primary monitor and all toolbar,
> autocomplete and bookmark popups open up in the right hand monitor ('primary'
> monitor)

That is antoher bug, occuring when having dual monitors. Dont know exaclty what
the bug number is, but you should find it in the meta bug 236647