400657 - us.etrade.com - ETrade portfolio view does not wrap like IE when viewing "All Brokerage Accounts"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[eberry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

The table showing portfolio details shows about twice as wide as it does in IE if you are viewing all of your accounts there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open the more simplified test case in Firefox 2.08 and compare to IE7, as the screenshot shows.

To see the source page for the test case:
If you have more than one account at ETrade, login
Go to the mentioned URL
Choose to view "All Brokerage Accounts"
The table listing portfolio symbols will grow to be about twice as wide as it is in IE and one has to scroll to see the rightmost columns
Actual Results:  
Rendering like IE, possibly, unless this is an IE bug.

Expected Results:  
I didn't expect to have to scroll to the right to see the rightmost columns

Comment 1

[eberry]

Attachment: Screenshot comparison of FF2/IE7

Comment 2

[eberry]

Attachment: Somewhat simplified html test case

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Simpler testcase

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Same thing in Quirks mode

Quirks mode version of last testcase (no DOCTYPE)

Comment 5

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Firefox is working as designed, see bug 277232 comment 13 and 14.

The site should fix their markup, either remove the nowrap attribute
or remove <!DOCTYPE> if Quirks mode is what they want.

-> Evang

Comment 6

[eberry]

I have contacted ETrade with the bug details and asked them to consider fixing this.  Thanks for your explanation, Mats.

Somewhat amusingly, their web site comment feature doesn't properly escape HTML content inside your comment text when displaying your entered comment, so I hope they can actually read my comment.

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

If they get back to you with a "huh?" sort of response, feel free to point them to this bug specifically, as we're more than happy to explain what the issue is.

cl

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

This requires an account for testing. 
Has the issue been fixed?

Comment 9

[eberry]

I no longer see this problem on the E*TRADE web site using the same steps as before.  I can't guarantee the issue won't show for others, since I'm not sure if that particular table cell only shows for certain account types/situations, but it is no longer a problem for me, at least.

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Thanks.