378837 - Alert box with too long of text does not show close button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318409

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Abdulrahman Salem]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

While putting alerts in to see what I was actually writing with document.write I noticed that the long alerts completely eliminate the close button.  After, you are stuck and can not close the app due to the alert box open and you must force kill the process via killall firefox-bin.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a button with an alert of a really long string
2. Hit button
3.
Actual Results:  
The box comes up on the screen that you can not close.

Expected Results:  
Displayed a box that has a close button.

Comment 2

[Michael Stillwell]

Alert messages with a lot of newlines (i.e. vertically "too long") result in the same problem; see attachment.

Comment 3

[Michael Stillwell]

Attachment: screenshot demonstrating alert box without any okay/cancel buttons

Comment 4

[Jonathan Vanasco]

To note on this:

Other browsers implement 2 features on the alerts:

a_ the text on long strings wraps to fit within the alert window 
b_ the text in the alert box is selectable ( which helps on filing bug reports and debugging javascript )

it would be nice if the fix to this bug incorporated those two traits