460103 - Horizontal scrolling when table has position:relative

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 394154

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrej Czapszys]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3

No matter the actual table dimensions, setting a table's position:relative and shifting to the right results in unexpected horizontal scrolling.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put this in your HTML: <table style="position:relative;left:55px" border="1"><tr><td>Content</td></tr></table>
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Actual Results:  
Makes the window scroll to the right an extra 55px.

Expected Results:  
Window should not have a scroll bar.

Comment 1

[Andrej Czapszys]

Attachment: example document showing the issue