344542 - Incorrect horiz scrollbar width for extra-wide table containing form

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Vicki Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

(apologies if this has been filed elsewhere. There are 200 table bugs and none seemed to be a match...)

When a table, which contains form elements, exceeds the width of the current browser window, the apparent width of the horizontal scrollbar is incorrect. The scrollbar is positioned to indicate the contents is only slightly wider than the window, even when the actual contents (table) is considerably wider than the window.

This occurs with FireFox on Windows XP and Mac OS X and with Camino on Mac OS X.  With FireFox on Mac OS X the horiz scrollbar is not displayed ("nothing to scroll")

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a table with form elements in the cells
2. narrow the window so the actual table is wider than the window
3. observe the horizontal scrollbar

Actual Results:  
the scrollbar should indicate that the table is wider than the window. Instead, it indicates that there is nothing "to the right" beyond the window border. As the window is widened, more of the table is exposed. However, the scrollbar continues to indicate there is nothing more to the right.

Expected Results:  
there is more content to the right. The scrollbar should indicate this and allow scrolling.

See screenshots.

Comment 1

[Vicki Brown]

Attachment: screenshot #1

Comment 2

[Vicki Brown]

Attachment: screenshot #2

Comment 3

[Vicki Brown]

Attachment: screenshot #4

Comment 4

[Vicki Brown]

Attachment: screenshot #3

Comment 5

[Vicki Brown]

Attachment: screenshot #4

Comment 6

[Vicki Brown]

Attachment: screenshot #5

screenshots 1 - 4 are Firefox on Win XP
screenshot 5 is FF on Mac OS X

Comment 7

[Vicki Brown]

if the screenshots are not sufficient I will create an account which will allow you to access the URL given here for a "live demo"

Comment 8

[Vicki Brown]

this seems to be related to the "skin" I use on TWiki or to the version of TWiki because the problem does not occur with an older version of TWiki using a diffetrent skin.

So, it could be considered a TWiki bug but it could also be considered a Mozilla bug. The table contents is there, it's visible when the window is made wider, it simply doesn't trigger the scrollbar. Sigh.

How do we proceed with something like this?

Comment 9

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Would you mind telling me what is a "new firefox profile", and how it
will help trace or prevent the memory leak?

Comment 10

[u279076]

Due to lack of reporter feedback and the inability to reproduce this bug, it is
being resolved as INCOMPLETE.  Reporter, feel free to reopen this bug if you
still are experiencing this issue and wish to provide us with more information
so that we can help.