49756 - Mozilla not wrapping pages properly -- appears to be UBB code incompatibility

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Paul Garceau]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000807
BuildID:    2000080712

When browsing a web page (see URL), Mozilla is not wrapping text fields properly
when accessing UBB (Universal Bulletin Board) enabled pages.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
In the page at http://198.112.59.4/cworld_forums/Forum18/HTML/000001.html, text
is not being right justified properly.  Text should
fit within the browser page.  May also be a problem at
http://www.mozilla.org/quality /help/bugzilla-helper.html as text is not being
positioned within the browser window.  This occurs with or without sidebar being
open.

Actual Results:  In first case,
http://198.112.59.4/cworld_forums/Forum18/HTML/000001.html, with My Sidebar
closed, text boxes were not right justified nor confined to initial browser window.

In second case, http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bugzilla-helper.html,  Left
margin is indented the approximate width of the opened My Sidebar.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have properly justified right and left margins
and completed line wraparounds as needed.

Current workaround is to use scroll bars to jump from left to right sides of
pages.  After using scroll-bars, problem gets irritating and I eventually shut
down Mozilla and use Netscape 4.74.  Wraparound also fails when submitting bug
report.

Comment 1

[Neil Conway]

The UBB example URL works for me with Linux 20000821. However, I've noticed this
with UBB pages in the past. I'll see if I can track it down.

AFAICT, the Mozilla Bugzilla Helper page also displays properly. Reporter - does
the page still appear incorrect after restarting Mozilla? The text is supposed
to be indented somewhat, due to the 'Mozilla.org' HTML navbar on the left side
of the screen.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

this UBB page isn't wrapping becuse there is a long unbroken URL down the page
which forces the width of that table and the rest of the text follows.  This is
the same in Navigator 4.7 but different than IE 5.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

invalid, uses nowrap and is correctly rendered

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

verified