239242 - When minumum-font-size causes a block of text to become taller than the css-height of the surrounding div, bad things happen.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Hal Canary]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

When minumum font size causes a block of text to become taller than the css
height of the surrounding div, bad things happen.  

I suggest that the renderer interpret the height as a minumum height, not as the
maximum height of the div.  You may disagree, and this may devolve into a
religous war.  I hope not.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Hal Canary]

Attachment: screenshot.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We do disagree.  The CSS spec has min-height and max-height properties for the
min and max height.  "height" means neither; it means that height _has_ to be used.

If the page were sizing the div in em, this would be a non-issue, since it would
scale with the text.  If it's sizing in absolute units, it will have problems at
times even without the minimum font size pref.  We can't fix badly designed
pages, unfortunately.