38377 - large white space on page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 37618

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Warren Harris]

This page renders with a large white space above the "Photo Equipment and 
Consumer Electronics" image heading on the left hand side.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: test case

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

The large white space is caused by the contents of a dropdown listbox being 
dumped into the content.

Apparently the </font> tag inside the <option> is being treated as the end tag 
for another <font> tag above the select, causing the browser to assume that 
there should have been a </select> and adding one automatically.  Removing the 
<font> tag inside the option (supposedly the start tag for the </font>) doesn't 
affect IE _or_ mozilla, so I guess IE always treats <select> as having higher 
precedence or something, whereas mozilla ignores the opening <font> tag AND 
treats them as having the same precedence.  (I think I'll stop speculating now 
and just send this to the parser people.)

Comment 3

[buster]

sounds like jesse has done a great analysis.  harish?

Comment 4

[harishd]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37618 ***

Comment 5

[Matt Perry]

Verified duplicate.