285726 - Text in the frame on the right appears all squashed up in Firefox. It's fine in IE6 and Opera 7.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[James Hardiman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

I'm responsible for the site http://www.co-met.org.uk.  It's developed in
Dreamweaver.  It looks fine in Dreamweaver, IE6, and Opera, but in Firefox

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just go to http://www.co-met.org.uk
2. Look in the frame on the right.
3. Go to any other page on the site ... it's the same on every page.

Actual Results:  
The text appears to be squashed, vertically, as if the line spacing is too small
for the font.

Expected Results:  
It should be displayed normally.

I have just installed Firefox on my wife's machine, and the problem is
repeatable there, too.

If you want, I could send you a JPG of the results, should you not see the
problem when you try it.

I'm a fairly new web developer, so I accept it *could* be me, but I've checked
with some other people, and it works on two other browsers, so I suspect it's a
Firefox bug.

Comment 1

[James Hardiman]

Attachment: GIFs showing the problem in Mozilla and OK in IE6 and Dreamweaver

Just so you can see what the problem looks like, there's a zip file with three
GIFs in it, here: http://www.co-met.org.uk/MozillaBug285726.zip

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

Attachment: Smaller testcase showing the problem

You have specified a height of 9pt for your text; it is as if the line spacing
is too small for the font.

> I'm a fairly new web developer, so I accept it *could* be me, but I've 
> checked with some other people, and it works on two other browsers, so I 
> suspect it's a Firefox bug.

You will probably get more and better help from web authoring resources.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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