284686 - Absolutelty postionned element not refreshed after DOM manipulation

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Laurent Martelli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Galeon/1.3.19 (Debian package 1.3.19-4)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Galeon/1.3.19 (Debian package 1.3.19-4)

An element with CSS style "position: absolute" is not redrawn after the document
is changed via the DOM API.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Download attachment below, click on "click me".
Actual Results:  
"bar" paragraph is drawn above "click me". Resize the window to have "click me"
repositioned under "bar".

Expected Results:  
"click me" should be repositioned automatically.

Comment 1

[Laurent Martelli]

Attachment: test case

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

worksforme with linux trunk 2005030305 and 1.8b1 although I do see the bug with
1.7.5, so this is actually a dupe of some bug that has already been fixed.

anyway, please test with a recent Mozilla build (like 1.8b1) from .mozilla.org
before filing bugs.  resolving WFM