242101 - textarea contents not drawn in textarea when it is inside a floated div

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233094

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Andy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

On the page: http://www.bethel.edu/~aaltepet/moz-example1.html, the textarea is
inside a div with style="float: left".  This div is inside another div with
style="display: table;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto".   When you type in
the textarea, the contents are drawn on the page where the textarea would be
drawn were it not centered (on the left of screen).

I was trying to have a 2-column variable width (only as much space as it needs)
form + receipt on the right.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a blank html file.  
2. In the body, add the following code:
<div style="display: table;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto">              
                                                                               
                                                    
<div style="float: left;padding-right: 20px;padding-left: 10px;">
<textarea name="publisher_format" id="publisher_format"
          cols="30" rows="15"></textarea><br />
</div>
</div>
3.  View the page, and type something in the textarea
Actual Results:  
the contents of the text area were drawn in the upper-left hand of the screen.

Expected Results:  
the text should have been drawn inside the textarea.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040429
Firefox/0.8.0+

Please retest with a nightly build and a fresh profile.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by patch in bug 233094

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233094 ***