293229 - yahoo.com - on the page above the lines of text overlap and are unreadable

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[horia.georgescu]

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

self explanatory

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Attachment: Shorter Testcase

It is the combination of the width and height (=fixed size) specifiers
on the <a> elements, and there being too much content for that size.

I am not sure whether this is a bug in Firefox.

What do you want to happen? What is your expected behaviour?

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: reduced testcase

<style type="text/css">
a {	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	display: block; height: 20px;
}
a.nav	{ width: 193px; }
hr		{ padding: 0; margin: 0; }
table td{ border: 1px solid red !important }
</style>

I attached a red border to <td>, and a <td> of width 193.

1st table has style from original testcase, a.nav
 <tr><td><a class="nav" href="#" title="California Beauty Sunless Tanning
System">California Beauty Sunless Tanning System</a></td></tr>

2nd table is like first, but sequence of entries reversed, so no overlaps.

3rd table has no width specified on <td>, so no overlap.

As first row in first table doesn´t fit in 193px, it takes three lines, and
overlaps next 2 <tr>s
Problem could be solved by specifying no width, as in table three, or by
specifying overflow: hidden, losing the text overlapping line two and line
three.

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: screenshot of 2nd testcase in Opera 8.0

opera respects the width and ignores the heigth

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

Why is this left in layout instead of moved to Tech Evangelism? Setting text
container heights in px is purely stupid, the ultimate source of most
overlapping text. 

Comment 5

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 6

[Jeffrey Baker]

Confirmed site problem, just to get it off the UNCO/testcase list.

Comment 7

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Link no longer exists, closing.