502637 - Ebay listings do not always fit browser window

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Nick Howitt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

There are a number of Ebay listings where text in the seller's payment instructions fails to wrap forcing a very wide display. Examples are http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190317958646&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&salenotsupported and http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300327236427&viewitem=&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2&category=16012&salenotsupported.

It has been reported and confirmed in this Mozillazine thread: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1336295

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open either link above
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Actual Results:  
Text does not wrap in Seller's Payment Instructions, forcing the horizontal scrollbar to appear as the window goes very wide.

Expected Results:  
Text should wrap; the page should fit within the width of the browser window.

Comment 1

[Alan Baxter]

Confirmed in Fx 3.5. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 - Build ID: 20090624025744
Problem does not occur in Fx 3.0.11.  Is this a regression?

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Possible duplicate of Bug 495538 only your pages are wider. It is a regression from 2.0 in any case, so not sure if this is really a Tech Evang issue.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

No, both bugs didn't regress on the same day. Regression range of this bug is: 
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=1949346e6006&tochange=6e39da3e3e20

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I found the regression range by testing the second URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300327236427&viewitem=&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2&category=16012&salenotsupported

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

So, the question is, TE or not? Confirming on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5

Comment 6

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

A testcase will probably show this. Status = UNCO until there is more info about the cause of the problem.

Comment 7

[Marshall P. Oliphant]

I originally reported this via Mozillazine, and the problem continues.  Since then, I have found yet another (more major) bug in Firefox 3.5 (Bug #503010), and will go back to 3.0.11 until 3.5 is ready for public use (I feel it was released prematurely).

Comment 8

[Dan Tobias]

The eBay payment info text seems to be contained within this element:

<pre class="standard1 cviWsSwitch" style=" word-wrap:break-word;margin-bottom:0px;">

and contains text with no built-in hard line breaks.  The normal default behavior of the <pre> element is to present text "as is" without adding breaks.  word-wrap:break-word is a CSS3 addition, not necessarily supported by all browsers, though some Firefox versions supposedly do support it.  It's a bad idea for a site developer to depend on it.  Nevertheless, I don't know why FF3.5 regressed on it.

Comment 9

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Firefox 3.5 is the first Firefox release to support 'word-wrap' (bug 99457).

Comment 10

[Michael Ryan]

Caused by use of -moz-pre-wrap (which was not obvious because it is being applied with the cviWsSwitch class). To support all versions of Firefox, they should be using "white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: pre-wrap;".

Comment 11

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Is this still an issue? If so, it should be confirmed and someone should be talking with eBay about it.

Comment 12

[Michael Ryan]

As far as I can see they no longer use -moz-pre-wrap anywhere. Resolving WORKSFORME.

Comment 13

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

That would be FIXED, then.

Comment 14

[Nick Howitt]

I have not noticed it in a long while, so I am happy for the bug to be closed.