264110 - css tag "overflow:hidden" hides all text if text overflows block container

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 172819

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Rob Stoecklein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Situation where text that should be visible is instead invisible.
I get the expected results in IE 6.0.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1) Go to http://www.wysiwygpro.com/demos/demo1.php
2) Click the "Insert/Edit an Image..." toolbar button (next to smiley face)
3) Upload an image with a very long name (~30 chars)
4) Notice that the image name does not appear in the left-side list box
If you look at the source code, there is a <p> element embedded inside of a <td>.
The <p> element has a style that includes "overflow:hidden".


Expected Results:  
The filename should show up, taking as much space available in the <td> element,
but no more (it shouldn't "overflow").

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Same behavior in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4)
Gecko/20040927

-> Browser

Comment 2

[Erik Fabert]

The problem is that Mozilla breaks the line after the image and the filename is 
placed in the next line, which is hidden because the paragraph has a fixed 
height.

Stripped down version:
<p style="width: 180px; height: 22px; overflow:hidden"><img 
src="about:logo" width="23" height="22">driverguide_search_help_ico.gif </p>

Increase the height to e.g. 32px and you'll see where the filename went.
Probably a duplicate of or dependant on bug 172819.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Daniel.S]

The problematic site/code is gone.

Because the underlying problem is bug 172819, this is a dupe.