552080 - overflow on tbody doesn't work in Firefox 3.7 alpha

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 577308

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jørn Holm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a3pre) Gecko/20100312 Minefield/3.7a3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a3pre) Gecko/20100312 Minefield/3.7a3pre

Scrolling on tbody when tbody has a height and overflow set to auto doesn't work in Firefox 3.7 alpha.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Create a table with 
<tbody style="height: 100px; overflow: auto">

Comment 1

[Jørn Holm]

Attachment: Test case for overflow on tbody (also my testcase for text-overflow: ellipsis)

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

Bug 28800 remove support for scrolling on rowgroups.

Comment 3

[Jørn Holm]

Has scrolling on rowgroups been removed!!!

Who in there right mind would do that? 
When creating web applications for different companies we always recommend developing for Firefox because Firefox is the only one supporting this great feature. "Every body" want's information displayed in tables with static header (and sometimes footer).

We can of courses do something similar with javascript, but I can't see any good reason for why this shouldn't be as simple as style="height: 100px; overflow: auto" (Even if it isn't 100% up the the standards).

I it will get removed you should also post a it as an up coming "feature" at:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Upcoming_Firefox_features_for_developers

I personally knows a lot of Intranet applications which will break, and developers needs a head up to warn their customers.

Comment 4

[Andreas Joseph Krogh]

I second Jørn's concern here. This would be tragic and represent a giant step *backwords* in modern web-technology. Someone should really put up a large warning-sign somewhere.

Is there a *single* argument for removing this functionality?

Comment 5

[j.j.]

> Is there a *single* argument for removing this functionality?

Incompatible with CSS standard and other browsers, see bug 28800 comment 37

Comment 6

[Andreas Joseph Krogh]

Well, plenty of stuff has become a standard *because* it once was implemented by someone needing the functionality despite it, at the time, was incompatible with whatever standard.
If you ask users instead of some committee I'm sure everyone developing serious web-applications really need scrolling tbody, regardless of whether it's part of a standard or not.

Thumbs down to the Mozilla team this time!