38639 - tracking bug for position: (absolute|fixed) && gfx scrollbars [POS]

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[John Morrison]

There are a number of bugs for this combination(s). This bug is initially just 
to gather them up -- I'll either consolidate them or use this as a tracking bug.
Will set qa to jrgm.

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

qa -> jrgm

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21476
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23806
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28505
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36812
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37699
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38609

... and since Ian is 'watching' ... Ian -- know any others?

Comment 3

[John Morrison]

Eric, here's an interim list of the bugs that deal with CSS position: and 
gfx scrollbars. I'll be reviewing and possibly closing out some of these 
as (essentially) dups. 

Ian, do you know of any others of this type?

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

John: Not off hand. I'll bear this bug in mind.

[moved bugs to dependencies to ease tracking]

Comment 5

[John Morrison]

Here's the summary of the four GFX scrollbars && CSS position:
bugs (they're not quite dups).

  bug #21476 -- {position:ABSOLUTE; overflow:SCROLL|AUTO;} && GFX
    => scrollbars don't work correctly (various problems)
   
  bug #28505 -- {position:FIXED; overflow:SCROLL|AUTO;} && GFX
    => scrollbars don't work correctly (various)

  bug #23806 -- {position:FIXED; overflow:SCROLL|AUTO;} && GFX
    => border styles are not applied to DIV

  bug #38131 -- The css property 'right:' is interpreted as relative to 
  the right hand edge of the window (viewport) when using GFX scrollbars, 
  but should be relative to the left hand margin of the vertical scrollbar.

Comment 6

[John Morrison]

bug 38131 is now duped as bug 5195

Comment 7

[Eric Vaughan]

Great. Thanks for collecting all these. This will help a lot.

Comment 8

[buster]

adding 36921, currently assigned to kevin

Comment 9

[John Morrison]

Ugh. Adding a couple of remaining anomalies (post-Eric's recent fix) 
to the list. bug 44192, bug 44298, bug 44297

Comment 10

[Ari]

I think bug 46257 is pertinent to this issue. It seems that the problem it
describes is only exhibited when the element to be scrolled is absolutely
positioned.

Comment 11

[basic]

should bug 45597 be on this list?

Comment 12

[John Levon]

or bug 47960 ?

Comment 13

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

All dependencies have been fixed, so this is too.