271967 - Horizontal scrollbar placed on left instead of right (page is RTL)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Moti Nisenson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When increasing the font size (CTRL +) to the point that a horizontal scroll bar
is necessary, the scroll bar is all the way to the left, and not to the right,
which is the correct behavior since the page is in Hebrew (a right to left
language).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Increase the font repeatedly until a horizontal scroll bar is displayed
(number of times determines on the size/resolution of your display)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Scroll bar appears, left-aligned.

Expected Results:  
Scroll bar appears, right-aligned.

Comment 1

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Reporter, given url is down for last 3 hours. Please, check URL and provide
another if needed

Comment 2

[Uri Bernstein]

I have no problem accessing the URL - perhaps it's blocked for viewers outside
Israel?

Anyway, the direction of the BODY is *not* RTL - it is not set to RTL neither in
the HTML itself nor in either of the CSS files.
I would have recommended making this a Tech. Evangelism bug, except that setting
the BODY direction to RTL will screw up the horizontal scrollbar situation even
more - due to bug 192767.

So I'm marking this INVALID.

Comment 3

[Moti Nisenson]

While the html and css files don't specify rtl, the encoding is set to
windows-1255 (i.e. hebrew), and every span on the page sets dir to rtl.

It's not a hugely important bug, but a simple directional check for the page
could be used (i.e. if all dirs specify rtl assume the page is rtl), though I'm
not sure whether this could have problems for other behaviors/bugs.

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

Mass-assigning the new rtl keyword to RTL-related (see bug 349193).