Closed Bug 21966 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

[DOGFOOD]z-order problems with the addressing widget (html select)

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

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Other
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: sspitzer, Assigned: beard)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [PDT-]RN)

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I've got 11 mail identities, and when I bring up
a mail compose window, and click on the "To:" html select
picker (to choose my identity) the z-order is messed up.

I'll attached a screen shot.

assign to kevin and cc ducarroz
Summary: z-order problems with the addressing widget (html select) → [DOGFOOD]z-order problems with the addressing widget (html select)
marking dogfood, as it prevents me from selecting my last few identities.

the last few are hidden under the editor widget in the compose window.
Assignee: kmcclusk → rods
From the screenshot it looks like combobox dropdown is being clipped against all
native windows.

Reassigning to Rod.
Whiteboard: [PDT-]
Putting on the PDT- radar.  Spoke with sspitzer.  You can do 6 mail identities
before this clips.
In fact it's a dup of bug 21830.
Assignee: rods → beard
Patrick, I think the clipping is incorrect for views with native windows and I
think this is the same bug that I had assigned to you a while back as a blocker.
When a dropdown list drops down over another view that has a native widget it
gets clipped out.

I tried setting the z-index on the dropdown to a zero and then to a 10 and
neither seemed to fix the problem. This bug will go away when we have gotten rid
of all but one native window, so I don't know if it is worth spending any time
on.
*** Bug 22378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Adding myself to the CC: list
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
It's not a z-index problem, but a clipping problem. I think it's because the view
is opaque, and that causes parent clipping to occur. Opaque views that go outside
of their parents only work if we're using fixed-positioning.
*** Bug 22932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
<relnote> a maximum of 6 mail identities is supported in current 
builds</relnote>
Whiteboard: [PDT-] → [PDT-]RN
yuck, I don't like that release note.

we can support more than 6 identities. 

the only problem is in the compose window, there is a html select widget bug and
the identity picker is cut off.

you can still use the other identities.

I'd rather the release note say that.

(should we move to using a title button and a cascading  menu?  that will
probably solve this problem, and look better)
I saw a checkin to html.css yesterday which may fix this. try with today's
build, see if it's working.
yes, beard's checkin to html.css fixes this.

marking fixed.

I have 9 identities and I can see them all in the "from:" picker.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
QA Contact: lchiang → nbaca
Setting Milestone to M14 so it appears in my queries.
Target Milestone: M14
Build 2000-03-02-08M15: NT4, Linux 6.0, Mac 8.5.1
Verified Fixed.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Mass removing self from CC list.
Now I feel sumb because I have to add back. Sorry for the spam.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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