295037 - easyjet.com -- Text illegibly overlayed on page using css and <div> tags

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[timinindia]

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

The page is corrupted with text being written over the top of other text.  This
makes it almost impossible to read the text.  I do not know enough html to say
whether this is due to bad coding of the html or not.  However, my (basic)
understanding of HTML is that this behaviour should be impossible to achieve, so
I fear it may be a bug in your otherwise excellent piece of software.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. view the above page
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Actual Results:  
Text from several parts of the webpage was written on the same place on the
screen, making it illegible

Expected Results:  
Not overlayed the text.

This happens in both Thunderbird and Firefox.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

There are a lot of problems with he HTML.  Mostly, it seems to assume that
relative (or perhaps absolute in some places) positioned blocks are "in flow"
meaning they grow their containing block.  They're not supposd to, but they do
in IE.

==> Evang

I noticed the email was dated Dec '04.  Do these problems still exist on the
site?  I poked around a bit and it looked ok.  Perhaps it's just in the email
they send.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

i think this is fixed