290970 - Javascript event causes flicker of overflow:auto DIV

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 132337

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

A certain combination of DIVs and javascript events causes an unpleasant
flickering effect. See 'steps to reproduce' for details.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The setup:

- two DIVs are set to float:left such that they are positioned side-by side.
- In the right-hand DIV is a further nested DIV set to overflow:auto
- In the right-hand DIV is a further DIV whose content is updated by a
javascript event (eg. onKeyUp in a text field)
Actual Results:  
When the event is fired, the div with overflow:auto appears to 'jump' briefly to
the left (and up, depending on its position). Repeated event calls cause an
unpleasant flickering effect.

Expected Results:  
The DIV should not appear to move.

I found the same results in Mozilla 1.6 (WinXP)

Comment 1

[bugzilla]

Attachment: Test case

Comment 2

[bugzilla]

I just tried taking out the first left-aligned DIV ( the red DIV in the test
case ) and the flickering still occurs. So all that's required is one
left-aligned DIV with a nested overflow:auto DIV.

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050419
Firefox/1.0+
WFM. Reporter, can you please try with the latest nightly (1.1beta) build and
see if this is still an issue for you? Thanks!
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

Please test with trunk builds before filing layout issues, thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132337 ***

Comment 5

[bugzilla]

This does appear to have been fixed in the latest build. Apologies for my lack
of familiarity with procedure :)

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

No problem, thanks for taking the time to file a bug