362960 - Select boxes inside a fixed table display text garbled or not at all

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 302379

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Christoph Kassen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

A select box inside a table causes a rendering bug. See the test case and the steps to reproduce for a description.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open attached test case
2. Select one of the options in the select box
3. Watch the actual text shown in the select box
4. Press reload
5. Wrong initial option is selected
Actual Results:  
Select box is rendered white or the text is cut off. The text in the drop-down is shown correctly.
After reload the wrong option is selected.

Expected Results:  
The text should not be cut off and/or the select box should not be blank.
After a reload always the first option should be selected.

Comment 1

[Christoph Kassen]

Attachment: test case

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Seems to be fixed in the reflow branch.

Comment 3

[Christoph Kassen]

Ok, good to know that the problem is known and fixed.
The reflow branch is scheduled for Firefox 3 right?

Thing is that I'm having this problem for a current project and it's causing me some headache. Is there any known workaround?

Thanks for the help.