257774 - Flash content in div with "position: fixed" displays on top of vertical scroll bar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Baldur Kristinsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.3

Resizing the browser window so that the flash ad on the right should be under
the scroll bar results in it being displayed on top of the scroll bar instead.
This does not occur with normal images (gif, png), and does not occur with flash
inside a div with "position: absolute".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a web page with flash content in a "position: fixed" div.
2. Resize the browser window so that the vertical scroll bar overlaps the flash
content.

Actual Results:  
The flash content displays on top of the scroll bar.

Expected Results:  
The scroll bar should have been displayed on top of the flash content.

This behaviour also occurs with Firefox 0.9.3 on Windows 2000.

Comment 1

[Baldur Kristinsson]

This display bug only occurs if the div containing the flash content has a fixed
width. If the width is unspecified or 'auto', the scroll bar displays on top
like it should. So, in summary, three factors have to be present: (1) fixed
positioning; (2) fixed width; (3) flash content - and not just (1) and (3), like
the original description suggested.

The referenced web site, http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/, no longer defines fixed
width for the div in question, so it is not a test case any more.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Baldur Kristinsson]

This bug seems to have been fixed as of Firefox 1.5 beta 1 (Gecko engine 20050908).