272009 - CSS3 columns don't work with position: absolute

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 277421

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Sébastien Desvignes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041119
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041119

-moz-column-count has no effect on absolutely positioned blocks.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Sébastien Desvignes]

Attachment: Testcase

This testcase show 4 paragraphs with -moz-column-count: 2.
1st is position: static and is OK
2nd is position: relative and is OK
3rd is position: absolute and has only 1 column
4th is position: fixed and has only 1 column

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The multiple branches in ConstructFrameByDisplayType for floated, positioned,
etc boxes are what's responsible for this....  We really need to work on
refactoring that code into a single codepath, I think.

Comment 3

[Sébastien Desvignes]

Is this bug related to bug 277421 ?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Er, yes.  I'm sorry I filed a duplicate... :(

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 277421 ***