241626 - {inc}changing font of parent of position:absolute div doesn't reposition child's text

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Positioned, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase

Steps to reproduce:
1. Load the testcase.
2. Bonk the button.

Result: all the text changes size, but each text node (?) stays in place.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040423
Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So you need the <link>, or can you just set inline style?

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: better testcase

If you set the inline style (font-size: 80%) on the BODY element, you get the
bug.  If you set the same inline style on the B element, you don't get the bug.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Interesting.  This also works if I change the font of the <p> itself...  It does
not work if I make the body relatively or absolutely positioned, so it's not a
"doesn't propagate reflow to out-of-flows" issue.

It looks like we're overoptimizing reflow of abs pos frames.

Resummarizing, since we're not changing the font of the child, in fact.

I can't shake the feeling that we have known bugs on this....

Comment 5

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM, SeaMonkey 2005-07-28-01 trunk Linux

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yeah, roc's changes to abs pos reflow stuff a while back probably fixed this.