299069 - Text does not wrap to page; text runs off the screen and disappears.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.0.4

Text does not wrap to the size of the browser window.  It continues for a word 
or for part of a word off the page to the right, where it is not visible to a 
viewer. When this happens, scrollbars do not appear at the bottom of the window 
to allow viewing of this extra text.  If I resize the window smaller or larger, 
I can sometimes see more of the words, but the sentence will break in a 
different way, again cutting off some words, leaving me unable to view all of 
the text.  This doesn't happen in other web browsers, and it is a problem on a 
number of sites.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter the URL
2. view the page
3. see the problem as evident
4. resize window and problem persists, but with different breaks in the 
sentence.

Actual Results:  
Same problem.

Expected Results:  
Text should wrap to the page size or there should be scrollbars appearing at 
the bottom of the page that would enable a viewer to see the remaining text.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

WFM in WinXP, latest build. If there are other font settings than default, I see
a horizontal scrollbar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050628
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062823

Comment 2

[David]

This problem does not occur on a Windows platform.  It occurs on a Mac.

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM in WinXP, latest build. If there are other font settings than default, I 
see
> a horizontal scrollbar.
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050628
> Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062823

Comment 3

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

WFM with a 6 days old SeaMonkey trunk build on Mac OS 10.3.9. David, can you try
with a more recent Firefox build?

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

works for me in Firefox 1.5 RC1
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051027 Firefox/1.5

the whole page is too large for my 12" screen (original iBook), but the scrollbars are visible.