307550 - position:fixed problems with <ul> and <input> elements

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Positioned, defect)

Description

[Chris Petersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6

Go here:  http://webdev.siliconmechanics.com/firefox_bug/

 In the first toolbar, the <ul>-menu is displayed normally, and the input in the
search box works as expected.

In the second toolbar, I've only changed the padding of the menu so that it
looks more like text, and makes the menu look nicer without a huge padding block
on the left side.

The third toolbar is identical to the second, but the surrounding <div> is
position:absolute instead of position:fixed. It works as expected.

In real-world examples (with an actual menu, etc), I've also seen the cursor
behave strangely in <input> boxes lower on the page (outside of the toolbar
<div>), with the cursor being out of vertical alignment instead of horizontal.
Even stranger, as you scroll the page, the cursor will often stay still (as if
it was positioned in relation to the position:fixed toolbar instead of its own
<input> box). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Chris Petersen]

Just tested the vertical misalignment mentioned on my test page against the fix
of not adjusting the padding of the <ul> and it still shows up.  So I guess
that's a second bug, and I'll have to figure out how to deal with that one on
its own.

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

This seems to have been fixed in 1.5, so I'm closing my bug.