327983 - DIV positioned absolute with inner block-level element keeps old widths

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Clint Hall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

If an absolutely positioned DIV has a block level element within it, showing and then hiding portions of the interior causes the DIV to stay its previous width until the user clicks on some other clickable element.

Refer to the demonstration for more details.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Produce markup and style as shown in the demonstration.
2. Click the link twice.
Actual Results:  
The area does not shrink to its original size until some other element is clicked.

Expected Results:  
The area should shrink.

Comment 1

[Clint Hall]

Attachment: Test oracle for this defect.

This is a demonstration file showing the issue.

Comment 2

[Clint Hall]

This is preventing our web solution from performing normally for our clients.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

to Layout for triage. Haven't looked at the testcase.

Comment 4

[Daniel.S]

This is reproducable in Gecko 1.8.x, but not in Gecko 1.9 (Firefox 3). The elements forming the testcase imply that this is an issue that was fixed by the reflow branch, thus won't be fixed for Firefox 2. -> Wontfix.

By the way, Opera 9 got the same problem, but the dev build of Opera 9.5 is fixed as well.