424973 - Span floated within paragraph is too far down. From Acid3.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50630

(Core :: Layout: Floats, defect)

Description

[Lars Gunther]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008032405 Minefield/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021904 

The instructions paragraph in Acid3 has a red dot to its right. It should be covered by a white 20x20px white span-element. But it is positioned 20px too far down. 

A reduced test case is located at http://keryx.se/dev/acid3/bg-in-negative-margin.html

And results from different browsers is located at http://keryx.se/dev/acid3/red-green-dot.pdf

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take the Acid3 test!

Actual Results:  
See PDF.

Expected Results:  
See screenshot from Safari in the PDF above.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Attachment: testcase from reporter's URL

Comment 2

[Patrick Dark]

Is this bug not a duplicate of bug 50630?

Comment 3

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Yeah, I think it is.

Comment 4

[Lars Gunther]

How can one know when reporting? (I do not want to add any more noise.)

Comment 5

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

It's often not easy to tell. If you're not sure, it's best to just file the bug and someone will discover the relationship.