243604 - Lots of overlapping text: page unreadable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 235149

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Graham Borland]

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

There's a lot of overlapping text on this credit card application form, such
that the page is unreadable.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to http://halifax.co.uk/creditcards/home.shtml
2. Click "apply now" in the top-left of the four content boxes (titled "New!    
Everything you'll ever need in one card")
3. Observe a smaller window open up
4. Click the "Start" button
5. Observe all the overlapping text
Actual Results:  
The page appears with the text overlapping.

Expected Results:  
The text shouldn't overlap.

Comment 1

[Anders Pedersen]

Confirmed.

- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040512
Firefox/0.8.0+
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP4

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That's the right layout for that CSS.  Note the "height: 30px" on a block that
has a whole bunch of text in it.  IE doesn't really implement the CSS "height"
property, so you get the "correct" rendering in IE.

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 235149 ***