280831 - {inc}Floated left navbar spans entire width of page until you do View --> Reload; then it displays OK

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Floats, defect)

Description

[David Salahi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050202 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050202

Upon the initial viewing of most pages at www.uucsc.org the navbar, which is
supposed to float in the left 25% of the page, actually extends across the
entire width of the page causing the rest of the page contents to be pushed
down. However, if you do View --> Reload, the page then displays correctly with
the navbar at the left, the main content in the middle and a News column at the
right.

To re-create the problem again after doing Reload, just clear the cache.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to www.uucsc.org; if the navbar doesn't extend across the entire page, try
another page, e.g., Minister's Column or Worship services. One of these is
guaranteed to render incorrectly.
2. When you find one that renders incorrectly, do View --> Reload. It will then
redraw correctly.
3. To reproduce the problem, do Tools --> Options --> Privacy --> Cache --> Clear

Actual Results:  
Initial page draw is incorrect. View -> Reload corrects the problem. But, of
course, our site visitors are not going to have any clue about this workaround.

Expected Results:  
Draw as it does after doing Reload. Or see IE6 Win for correct display.

Comment 1

[David Salahi]

Sorry, the steps I gave for clearing the cache were for Firefox. I'm sure you
know how to do it in Mozilla (Prefs -> Adv. -> Cache. (DLS)

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Testcase

This is basically the problem here. I can see this bug also in Moz1.7, Moz1.4
etc, so this is not a recent regression.

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Testcase2

This testcases uses Hyatt's hack (js) to trigger the bug.
I'm going to confirm the bug. I can't find any obvious duplicates.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061208 Minefield/3.0a1 ID:2006120812 [cairo]

Seems fixed by reflow branch landing

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Yeah, fixed by the reflow branch landing.
It was still a problem with a 2006-12-06 build.

Comment 6

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Adding in-testsuite? nomination per bz's request in m.d.t.l. Sorry for the bugspam.