294215 - Horizontal scrollbar displayed when it shouldn't on p tag using text-align:justify and overflow:auto

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Maziade]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I reproduced the problem in a simple page here :
http://www.zombiescomic.com/temp/overflow_bug.html

First sample box has a fixed-width div tag in which we have a p tag.  The p-tag
is set to display text that is justified and uses overflow:auto.

I'd expect no scrollbar to show if the content of the p tag is text only.

Second sample box doesn't use "justified" and renders fine with left-aligned text.

Seems to be some problem with word-wrapping / calculating width of justified
text (this kind of problem usually comes from rounding).

I've been seeing this problem since FireFox 1.0.1  Still there with 1.0.4

It depends of the width of the "p" tag and the actual text contained within.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
I expect, in the sample shown at
http://www.zombiescomic.com/temp/overflow_bug.html, not to see any scrollbars
anywhere.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050514
Firefox/1.0+

When it comes to reporting layout bugs, please test with a trunk build first:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

This has been fixed and will be available in Firefox 1.1