296995 - background gets messed up on inserting an image

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Oliver Prygotzki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

http://www.tierversuchsgegner.org/texte/circumcision.html
is displayed as intended. When I add an image (below the line
<h2>&#9658;&nbsp;Trauma &amp; post-traumatic recovery</h2>),
the background gets messed up at the top and the bottom of the
page.

Both pages are validated as HTML4.01trans and use the standards compliant
rendering mode.

Displayed as intended: 
http://www.tierversuchsgegner.org/texte/circumcision.html
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tierversuchsgegner.org%2Ftexte%2Fcircumcision.html

Image added, page messed up:
http://www.tierversuchsgegner.org/texte/circumcision2.html
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tierversuchsgegner.org%2Ftexte%2Fcircumcision2.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.tierversuchsgegner.org/texte/circumcision2.html

Actual Results:  
background of main box is partial black at top and bottom of the page.

This happens in Mozilla 1.8a2 and in Firefox 1.0.4.

Expected Results:  
background should be white, like in 
http://www.tierversuchsgegner.org/texte/circumcision.html

Please fix this layout problem, but also name what causes this problem and
suggest a workaround (change in HTML/CSS/JS?) for older version of Mozilla and
Firefox.

Att.: Both pages contain images of nude male human genitals.

Comment 1

[dolphinling]

Could you perhaps switch the images for something else, and put them on a test
page? Quite frankly, people are more likely to look at the pages if they don't
have to look at the images there now.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is there a page showing the problem?  The links in comment 0 are 404...

Comment 3

[Daniel.S]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is there a page showing the problem?  The links in comment 0 are 404...

That's still the case. The site's probably gone.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Daniel, this bug's incomplete, not invalid.  In general, only the module owner or peers should be resolving bugs invalid...

Comment 5

[Daniel.S]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Daniel, this bug's incomplete, not invalid.  In general, only the module owner
> or peers should be resolving bugs invalid...

I see. I wasn't really confident with either, but I get what you argue with. I'll keep this in mind as well.

Besides, it may be a bad habit, but after editing a bug I vote for it a few weeks instead of CCing myself to it. This way I try to prevent even more spamming as many users still get a mail on CC-change. - Just FYI, I don't have a problem with being CC'd to a bug.