640917 - Make SVG foreignObject a CSS fixed position containing block

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Description

[Laurent Fournier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

An xhtml DIV inside a foreignobject of a SVG document does not render the content with a CSS property 'position:fixed'.
FF does not return ant error and the DOM inspector shows the right block position but content still empty !
Works fine with Webkit (chromium 10.0.629.0 (70502)
The bug exists also on Linux FF4.0 beta13

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Run this SVG code:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<style type="text/css">div { position:fixed; background: #aaa; } </style>
<foreignObject width="100px" height="100px">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">TEXT</div>
</foreignObject>
</svg>
Actual Results:  
empty page

Expected Results:  
'TEXT' string rendered

I have given a minimal example to reproduce the bug but my initial request was to embbed a full HTML5 Ace editor inside an SVG code. (Ace request a fixed div)

Comment 1

[Laurent Fournier]

Created attachment 518681 [details]
compare webkit/gecko

Comment 2

[Robert Longson]

Can you add the testcase as an attachment rather than pasting it as a comment please?

Comment 3

[Laurent Fournier]

Created attachment 518684 [details]
bug_pos.svg

Comment 4

[aravindm]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Able to reproduce in Firefox 4rc1. Works fine for me in Firefox 3.6.15.

Comment 5

[Laurent Fournier]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
> 
> Able to reproduce in Firefox 4rc1. Works fine for me in Firefox 3.6.15.
The bug is on both:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
and nightly build: 4.0b13pre (2011-03-10)

Comment 6

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Confirmed agsinst Trunk & Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.16pre) Gecko/20110308 Namoroka/3.6.16pre ID:20110308033207

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bz] (if a patch has no decent message, automatic r-)]

roc, the frame is there but we seem to not end up painting the div... any idea why?

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bz] (if a patch has no decent message, automatic r-)]

Created attachment 599351 [details] [diff] [review]
Treat foreignObject as a fixed position containing block.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bz] (if a patch has no decent message, automatic r-)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/5a90ee43d1f0

Comment 10

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5a90ee43d1f0