25920 - page is very long, but shouldn't be

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 12945

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

DESCRIPTION:  The above page, to test absolute positioning, is very very long. 
(The slider on the scrollbar is tiny.)  I'll try and make a simplified testcase
sometime...

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
 * load http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/css/test/sec1001e

ACTUAL RESULTS:
 * page is very long

EXPECTED RESULTS:
 * page is a screen or two long

DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY ON:
 * Linux, mozilla, 2000-01-30-09-M14

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
 * Note that this test page is partially completed, and the correct behavior may
be strange or undefined.  However, it shouldn't be the current behavior.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: simplified testcase

Comment 2

[troy]

This is just the same issues as bug #12945.

There's a rule that specifies positioning the element at the bottom. However, 
the ICB has an 'auto' value for 'height'.

The CSS2 WG agreed that we should the viewport height in this case, but I 
haven't implemented that yet

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12945 ***

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

Marking as verified dup of 12945.