357285 - Setting visibility of a text area to hidden using javascript. The text area becomes hidden but the scrollbar is still visible

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187435

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Pickard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/1.5.0.7-1.1 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/1.5.0.7-1.1 Firefox/1.5.0.7

Side scrollbar of a text area will not hide when setting style visibility property 
to hidden using javascript.
Mac OS 10.3.9 firefox 1.5.7 downloaded today
same result with camino

Works fine on windows firefox.
Works fine with both Opera and Safari on Mac

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.visit www.cardvark.co.uk/firefox_mac_bug.htm on your mac
2.press the button provided
Actual Results:  
the text area is hidden but it's left scrollbar remains visible

Expected Results:  
both the text area and it's scrollbar should hide

Comment 1

[Steve Pickard]

Works fine on Linux Firefox too

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187435 ***