280628 - text is written over previous text

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[mozbug]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

on many places of this url, you'll see text writtten over text like if there was
no newline chaacter. IE displays it properly

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
just load the url

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdetarle.club.fr%2Fcatho%2Flouise5.htm

MS frontpage code. 188 errors.
Doesn´t matter, Louise Tomkiel is more important than the Lord or the W3C, not
to mention Firefox ;-)


<b><font color="#FF6600" face="Arial" size="5">Messages du
    </font></b><font color="#FF6600" size="5" face="Arial
Black">Seigneur</font><b><font color="#FF6600" face="Arial" size="5"> 
    à </font></b><font face="Arial Black" color="#FF6600" size="6">Louise 
    Tomkiel </font><font face="Arial Black" size="4" color="#FF6600">
(5)</font></td>

le Seigneur est moins grande que Mme. Louise Tomkiel ?
The Lord is smaller than Louise Tomkiel? 

Comment 2

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

Most of the content of the page is inside:

<div style="width: 634; height: 16">

IE/Windows handles 'height' incorrectly.