464026 - FF does not display "many" forms correctly.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[gries48]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

FF doesn't set the spaces between vertical objects correctly. As a result, <enter> boxes, or <check> boxes are covering each other and only partially displayed. This happens in some sites, but not all. One example for me is:
[[[[[https://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/login/login.psp?sitedomain=sns.webmail.aol.com&lang=en&locale=us&authLev=0&siteState=ver%3a4|rt%3aSTANDARD|ac%3aWS|at%3aSNS|ld%3awebmail.aol.com|rp%3asuite.aspx|uv%3aAIM|lc%3aen-us|mt%3aAIM|snt%3aScreenName&offerId=webmail8-en-us&seamless=novl]]]]]
boy, that's a long one, but it's the one I use most frequently.  I've noticed it in sites like MySpace, and again, 'some' pages with boxes for entering data. They display correctly if I cut and paste the page into IE7, and even (now) Opera, which I've just started experimenting with. It's not as friendly as FF, and takes more configuration, but it seems to do tricks the others can't, including change the whole display size of the page by itself to fit things in? Anyway, what I'm seeing is this vertical stacking issue with fill boxes.
XP Pro SP3, ACER 5100 w/ATI Xpress 1100. 
Thanks, Jon

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the page.
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Actual Results:  
on some pages, just makes it difficult to fill or click boxes.  some it's off enough the make it hard to read.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Would you mind posting a screenshot of what that page looks like for you?  This is the aol.com login page, right?  Or the page you get after you log in?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No response, no testcase, nothing that I can do about this.  Please reopen when you can provide the requested information.