304760 - gaf.com - Page text shown too far to the left as opposed to other browsers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P4)

Description

[Himanshu J Gohel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

In Firefox the page text is rendered at the left edge of the page, which
overlaps the red bar running down the left edge of the page, making it hard to read.

In IE6, the red bar is still there, but the text is shown indented a bit, which
makes it easier to read.

Looking at the source of the page, there might be an issue with tables, and
perhaps the leftmargin attribute, though that's just a guess.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit URL listed
2. Observe red bar long left hand edge
3. Observe text overlaid on top of the red bar instead of being indented

Actual Results:  
I saw that the text was rendered on top of a red bar along left hand edge of the
page, making it difficult to read.

Expected Results:  
The text should have been indented a certain amount, as shown by IE.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

This page uses the Microsoft-specific "leftmargin" attribute, which we decided
no to implement (bug 26788).

=> Tech. Evang.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.

Comment 3

[Himanshu J Gohel]

The web site in question has changed so the URL doesn't demonstrate the problem.  A test case would have to be created with the leftmargin attribute that Uri Bernstein mentioned, if such a test doesn't exist.  At this point the issue is not important to me, the bug can be closed.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

FIXED per comment 3, then.