651698 - Text out of the box

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Oskar Ivanić (:icecold)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/6.0a1
Build Identifier: 

When I go to the Net.hr and when I want to post a comment I find that text "Prijavi se" is out of the box.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to linked website 
2.Scroll down for comment box
3.See the problem

Comment 1

[Oskar Ivanić (:icecold)]

Attachment: Screenshot of problem

Comment 2

[gabe]

confirmed

Comment 3

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

I notice that the same problem appears on OS X under both Firefox 3.6 and Safari.

This is a poorly-implemented page design, where the box containing "Prijavi se" has been given a fixed width (75px) in the CSS; this may or may not be quite wide enough for the text, depending on the exact fonts the browser ends up using.  In Windows, font metrics differ between GDI and DWrite layout, so the result may depend which rendering path is used.

Authors should not make such fragile assumptions about the precise pixel dimensions of text, because fonts vary depending on user preferences, availability on the platform, etc.

Comment 4

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Unable to reproduce.