313493 - #mozilla-org link (top of page) styled to create huge width (horizontal scrollbar in Opera)

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Probably this is a rendering bug with Opera more than anything else, but:

At the top of a bug page under the new (2.20) b.m.o install is a link, "Visit mozilla.org".  
  <div id="mozilla-org">
    <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/" 
       title="Visit mozilla.org">Visit mozilla.org</a>
  </div>
(Probably this appears on other mozilla.org pages, but I haven't found an example yet.)

The styling for   #mozilla_org a    includes:    text-indent: -5000em;
The only use I can see for this is to push the link's text "Visit mozilla.org" outside of the page width.  Under Firefox and IE, that's just fine -- the long indent for some reason doesn't add to the page width.

Under Opera 8.5, the page width becomes very wide, altho the bug content fits in the normal space; a horizontal scrollbar allows me to scroll over a seemingly interminable blank space with a yellow band across the top.

I'll file a bug with Opera, but really, isn't there a better way to achieve the results other than this indentation hack?  Why not use an actual image for the link, rather than text that you don't really want, indented out of sight, and relying on a background-image?

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

I don't think we do this anymore. If we do, please reopen this bug.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

You're right, this no longer happens.  Thanks.