224582 - Form autocomplete dropdown appears far from textbox

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 214121

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Jeffrey Schrab]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

When attempting to fill in forms and the auto-complete kicks in for fields that
it "knows", some pages (probably because of <div> structures) push the drop down
box *much* lower than expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to fill out the field above so that the auto-complete "knows" some
values (it might already from previous browsing and similarlly named fields). 
BE NICE TO THE PEOPLE AT THE EXAMPLE SITE AND DO NOT STUFF THEIR MAILBOXES WITH
JUNK SUBMISSIONS!
2. Try again to allow "auto complete" to do it's thing.


Actual Results:  
The drop-down element ends up very low on the page.

Expected Results:  
It would be more expected that the drop-down element end up *immediately* under
the field element.

(I wish there was a way to submit a screen shot...)

Comment 1

[Jeffrey Schrab]

Ok, one more comment - before trying this example, scroll down the page until
the "First Name" field is at the top the browser "viewport".  Then try it.

Comment 2

[Jeffrey Schrab]

Attachment: Screen shot example of bug

Comment 3

[Sean Umphlet (nosebleed)]

Confirmed on that exact same page in the screenshot.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031102 Firebird/0.7+

Comment 4

[Wayne Woods]

Confirmed for the Mac version too, 20031104 Firebird/0.7+. Freaky.

Comment 5

[Bob Firth]

related to bug 214121? There is definitely a fair bit of CSS on this page.

Comment 6

[Wayne Woods]

Attachment: test page

Comment 7

[Wayne Woods]

Attachment: css to go with test page

Comment 8

[Wayne Woods]

Yeah, I don't know a lot about css, but the problem here looks to be the same as
for that bug. I spent a while reducing the problem page, and its associated css,
to the very basics. I've just included both pages as attachments.

It looks like the crucial point is that the position for the style is set to
absolute, which is the same as for the other bug. So I'm pretty sure it's a dupe
of bug 214121.

Comment 9

[Wayne Woods]

BTW, sorry, but you'll need to download both pages to the same directory to get
them to work. I tried to embed the css in the one page, but I couldn't get it to
reproduce the bug. Maybe someone who is better at this can fix my crummy page ;)

Comment 10

[Bob Firth]

There is already a good test case in bug 214121 (with embedded CSS). I'm marking
this bug as dupe of the other one. Please have a read of that one and add any
comments in there that you think will be helpful. 

You can copy & paste from this bug, and link to attachments too if you think
that would be helpful. I think you can just write attachment 134884 [details] and it will
make the link automatically (you'll be able to tell from this message anyway).

thanks for you work on this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214121 ***

Comment 11

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified dupe.

Comment 12

[Wayne Woods]

It's ok. I only wanted to produce the test case here to demonstrate that it's
likely to be a dupe of the other one :)