22670 - <FONT SIZE="-1"> does not span <P> </P> tags

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Pat Johnson]

The web page www.thecanterburyschool.org/Admissions/admissions.htm was generate
by NetObject Fusion 3.0 and contains a font size tag that spans multiple
paragraphs.  Netscape Communicator 4.6 and Internet Explorer 4.5 on the
Macintosh render all of the paragraphs up to the </FONT> tag as a smaller font.

Mozilla R12 on a Macintosh running OS9 only renders the first paragraph as a
smaller font.  All paragraphs after the first </P> tag are rendered as normal size.

Comment 1

[rickg]

This is legit. I'll look into it.

Comment 2

[Sean Richardson]

This also does not work correctly on WinNT on a recent M13 build, but there
seems to be a complication that the fix for 991 may not have contemplated:
the first and last <P> elements meant to be spanned by the <FONT SIZE="-1">
element are not completely nested within it. Here's some abstracted HTML based
on the frame at
http://www.thecanterburyschool.org/Admissions/body_admissions.htm :
   <P><FONT SIZE="-1">text</P>
   <P>text</P>
   ...
   <P>text</P>
   <P>text</FONT> <FONT SIZE="-2">text</FONT> <FONT SIZE="-1">text</P>
   <P>text</FONT>

It seems that NetObjects Fusion doesn't bother to nest elements properly. Ouch.

Based on what was seen in bug 22711, "Fonts that should be Arial come up Times",
the fix for bug 991 wasn't enabled by default in M12, but is in current M13
builds, and works when the <FONT> element completely surrounds multiple <P>
elements.

Tested with: 1999-12-28-08-M13 nightly binary on Windows NT 4.0sp3

Comment 3

[rickg]

This is fixed in my tree, awaiting an opportune time to land.

Comment 4

[rickg]

Fixed by change to CloseContainersTo() and ElementTable().

Comment 5

[Chris Petersen]

With the Jan 05 build, this problem has been fixed.

Comment 6

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.