508016 - Dropdown list appears below

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Vadim Rapp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12

Dropdown list on the right appears lower than its root item, which makes it hard to use

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
at this page, hover the mouse over the white list of the manufacturers etc. on the left. Each entry drops its own popup menu on the right. This menu is intended to be vertically aligned with the root item on the left, so the top of the popup menu  would appear on the same level as the cursor. Instead, it appears one position lower, which makes it very hard to select - as soon as you move the cursor to the right with the mouse, the list disappears because the cursor hits empty space.

Actual Results:  
see steps

Expected Results:  
popup list should appear on the same vertical level as the root item.

In IE, popup list appears on the same level.

Comment 1

[Vadim Rapp]

Attachment: screenshot - how it is in Firefox

Comment 2

[Vadim Rapp]

Attachment: screenshot - how it is in IE (how it should be)

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I tested this on Windows Vista and only Internet Explorer displays it the way you want, other browsers like Firefox old and new, Opera and Google Chrome agree that your coding means that it should be interpreted like in your screen capture in comment 1.

Comment 4

[Vadim Rapp]

It's not my coding actually, it's from the site where I tried to order contact lens :-) But what matters though is probably not which browser shows what, but what it the right way to show it. The intention of the web designer most likely was to show it exactly as in IE.

Comment 5

[Corey Farwell]

I'm marking this as invalid as this is a web design problem rather than a Firefox problem.