542650 - Firefox 3.6 - New CSS Changes causes FieldSets to break

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 450418

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[sami]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

See:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=firefox+3.6+fieldset&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=

Several people reporting that legends inside fieldsets behave differently with 3.6. With our internal app, the legend is mashed at the top now. FF 3.5X and IE work fine.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Attachment: testcase, posted on forum

Testcase, posted here: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=657313
Is this your problem?

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=423902) [details]
> testcase, posted on forum
> 
> Testcase, posted here: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=657313
> Is this your problem?

That particular test case is covered by bug 450418.
(and is a side effect of bug 269908)

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

That, plus the fact that in 3.6 we started enabling absolute positioning of <legend>, which had previously been disabled.