282017 - editor loses scrollbar

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122

When I open window with editor by openDialog() method with non-empty-string
window features then editor shows scrollbar never.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Attachment: testcase

run it with chrome protocol

When you enter too much charackters then scrollbar will apear. 
Open dialog and enter too much charackters. Scrollbar will not appear.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Needs a non-chrome testcase using a file:// URI and enablePrivilege.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

confirm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050909
SeaMonkey/1.1a

Comment 5

[Stéphane]

Hi,

I have the same problem.
I'm using an editor on a dialog window and the scollbars are never visible.
If the same editor is used on the "main" browser window, the scollbars works fine.

Comment 6

[Stéphane]

Sorry, I'm on Firefox 1.5.0.1  :)

Comment 7

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Confirming ! Wow, this is a bit of a bug, and it makes the <editor> unusable
in a dialog.

Comment 8

[Lyle Arnot]

Confirming, thunderbird 1.5.0.9, this is a almost two years bug.

Comment 9

[Lyle Arnot]

Ok, irc channel give the answer:

You need to include "scrollbars" in the opendialog, sample from irc:

window.openDialog('example.xul', '', 'chrome,modal,centerscreen,resizable,scrollbars');

Comment 10

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Ok, irc channel give the answer:
> 
> You need to include "scrollbars" in the opendialog, sample from irc:
> 
> window.openDialog('example.xul', '',
> 'chrome,modal,centerscreen,resizable,scrollbars');
> 

It looks a tricky a bit or like workaround. I believe xul:editor should be scrollable itself when its content is more than editor's area since xul:editor contains own document and properties of editor's document shouldn't depend on host document. Am I wrong?

Comment 11

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Also, if it confuses not only me then probably Mozilla should be more friendly :)? Or wanted behaviour brokes some mozilla layout paradigms?

Comment 12

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

cc'ing Neil to clear questions.

Comment 13

[[e-mail]]

The scrollbars property is specifically designed to affect the browser or editor with type="content-primary" so you could try type="content" instead.