231834 - cnet.com - Most/all CNET stories have a fixed height on the first paragraph

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

Most or all CNET stories have a fixed height on the first paragraph's <div> tag
-- in this case:

<div
style="background:url(http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/ts/ces/2004/ces_editor_blecher.jpg);
height:275px">

If the font size is not as expected (larger), the text will overflow the div and
be covered/lost to the following DIV.  Mozilla respects the absolute DIV size
and doesn't move the following DIV.

Note that IE appears to move the following DIV down to account for the overflow
of the absolute-sized div (or if you prefer, bump the size of the overflowed div
up) when you increase the text size, which is probably why they didn't notice this.

Comment 1

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

To reproduce, load the page and then increase the font size.

I'm assuming this is not a layout bug, and that an overflowed absolute-height
DIV should not shift following div's (though IE appears to).  If I'm wrong, let
me know.

I'm also reporting this to CNET via their webform.  There's no direct category
for this, so I'm using "other" and asking it be sent to their web template
maintainers.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 3

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

It appears that we now move the following DIV, since the page still has the absolute div, but increasing the font size bumps stuff down (like IE)>