361871 - using javascript to set style.display=none does not reset the position of the element

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97506

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[iasonas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04320)
Build Identifier: firefox 2.0

If an element in a page is hidden and displayed again many times using the style attribute display, the position of the element is not reset when display=none. So if the javascript is executed many times, the element ends up in bottom of page

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.please go to url and get source code, its really simple
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Actual Results:  
the element does not go to the position it was in first place

Expected Results:  
after a few clicks on the link, the page to be similar as when enterred for first time

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Attachment: testcase from reporter's URL

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

With Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1pre) Gecko/2006112504 BonEcho/2.0.0.1pre repeated clicking of 'hide and show' results in the 'this is above the hidden tr' text moving down the page quickly.

With:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/2006112304 Minefield/3.0a1 [reflow]
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061125 Minefield/3.0a1 ID:2006112504 [cairo]
the 'this is above the hidden tr' text still moves down the page, but at a much slower rate.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Note that display:table-row is the default for <TR>.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q2

As a workaround, toggling between "none" and "" should work in all browsers
as far as I know.

Dupe of bug 97506 via bug 305095...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97506 ***