50405 - nonbreaking string wider than window causes lose of scrollbar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 20318

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[john russell]

When a nonbreaking string has a width greater than the window,
it loses the vertical scroller instead of adding a horizontal
scroller.  Test by making an html doc with a fake 30 digit string
 1234etc.  Now gradually size the window to left and watch scroller
disappear... obviously two errors here. need to bring up horizontal
one and not lose vertical one -- noticed on build 82508 ....
also noticed someone fixed nonbreaking spaces that broke on
build 82508  so slowly the flakes disappear ;-] ;-]

Comment 1

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

Are you sure this isn't the problem that we lose the vertical scrollbar when the
window gets to narrow, irregardless of the content?

Comment 2

[john russell]

dbaron is correct. the disappearance of the vertical bar is
not related to unbreaking strings. ANYTIME the width goes below
aprox 32 characters of standard pitch, the vertical bar disappears.
It should stay available right to the bitter end of narrowing.
Was not a problem in netscape 4.x but new layout is glitched.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

should this go to Layout? [shrugs. not my qa realm, at least. reassign as
needed.]

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This is a dup. Now to find the relevant bug...

Comment 5

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20318 ***

Comment 6

[Stephen Walker]

vrfy dup