256134 - Text from main part overlapping text in column

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[Richard Quick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

In the page at
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/03949394.asp
the text of the main article, overlaps partially the text in a "side" column
(meaning a column with some additional info in it).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the page
2. Shift-Refresh
3. Quit and reload browser and Shift-Refresh too

Actual Results:  
Sam problem came back

Expected Results:  
Have the tex not overlap :)

Screen IBM 6331 E54
Chipset SiS530 rev A3
Resolution 800x600, 16 bits Hicolour
SiS Driver 4.11.01.1060
Win 98 4.10 build 2222
Direct X 9.0b

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a problem with a current trunk build?

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: 20kb screenshot detail seen on Mozilla 1.4.2

confirming this bug on Mozilla 1.4.2

current Firefox and Mozilla nightlies are not affected
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

the code contains lots of invalid HTML comments, but I didn´t see any one
blocking HTML.

the tags for the mispositioned table are written using document.write:

			<!-- Begin Sidebar -->	
			<script language="javascript">
			<!--
				if ("Provocative language" != "") {
					document.write("<table
bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\" cellpadding=\"2\" align=\"right\"
width=\"200\"class=\"sidebar\">");
				} else {
					document.write("<table
bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" cellpadding=\"2\" align=\"right\" class=\"small\">");
				}
			//-->
			</script>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top">
						<b>Provocative language</b>

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

confirming bug and changing Version to 1.4 Branch, as it isn´t seen in Aviary
and  1.7 branches or mozilla trunk. Netscape 7.2 also working.

Bug seen or not, DOM inspector shows the table to be of class sidebar.
Box Model shows: bug seen x: -46, bug not seen x: 1

There are some invalid comments in the code, but none of them was blocking code,
at least at viewing source.
Example:
<!---------END SEARCH BOX----------->

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Marking worksforme; if this is only a problem with old enough builds, we're not
going to dig for what fixed it (the stable branches are getting crash and secity
fixes and nothing else).  Resetting to trunk, since that's what the worksforme
applies to.