279860 - Using <form><button><p>text</p></button></form>, text is not formatted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61902

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[neal.p.murphy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux 2.6.9-2-686; X11; i686; en_US) KHTML/3.3.2 (like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If I understand correctly, within <button>...</button>, the <p>...</p> tags    
should be allowed. However, in the above reported version of Firefox, Netscape    
[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1]    
and Mozilla [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105    
Debian/1.7.5-1], the text is formatted as one long line, without line breaks.    
    
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://murent.us/firefoxtest.php - the problem should be obvious. 
    
Actual Results:  
The text inside the button is formatted as one long line, without line breaks, 
and the width of the button far exceeds the container's 'margins'.  

Expected Results:  
The text should be filled to the paragraph's margins, and the button should be    
sized to the window, or the container it's in, whichever is smaller. (If I had 
to guess, I'd say it's a size problem, rather than a text formatting problem.) 

For what it's worth, Konqueror 3.3.1 and lynx do format the text correctly,         
well, as I expect it to be. :) Konqueror does fill the width of the window        
with the button, and correctly 'redisplays' the button at the window's width        
changes.    
    
Also, the buttons do work as expected in all the graphical bowsers I tested.    
       
The specified URL is a minimal test case I made from the actual site. I     
believe the HTML is minimally correct. 
 
As much as I should call it a major bug, just because it's been around so 
long, I'll be nice and call it normal. :)

Comment 1

[Ng Ming Hong]

Not "all" graphical browsers as IE 6.0 behaves same as Mozilla 1.8a6 / Firefox 1.0.

Comment 2

[neal.p.murphy]

Hmmm. IE says it is based on NCSA Mosaic. Makes me wonder how long this bug 
has been in place.... 

Comment 3

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Sending over to layout for further triage (the content model is correct).

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61902 ***