291587 - Firefox doesn't resize float container elements after a size reduction

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[david]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

When a container full of elements changed to "floating" then back to "no float",
the container gets a double-size for no real reason, until the window is resized
or the contents re-rendered.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Scroll down to "list style"
2. Choose "tiles" or "compressed"
3. Notice how everything's bunched up (like it's meant to be)
4. Change it back to "list"
5. Note the big spaces between the end of the list elements and the headers
6. Resize the window and it re-renders and returns it back to normal
Actual Results:  
Gecko doubles the size of the float containers for no real reason. Gecko renders
it correctly once the window is resized.

Expected Results:  
Resized the containers as to make the page appear like when it was first loaded

Comment 1

[david]

Attachment: A screenshot of the problem

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050422
Firefox/1.0+
Works for me. David - can you try with this firefox nightly trunk (1.1beta)
build and let us know if you still see the problem? Thanks!
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2005-04-22-07-trunk/

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Testcase not available; marking worskforme per comment 2, but please reopen if
this is a problem in a current build (and if so, attach the testcase to the bug,
please).