651829 - Popup of invalidation html5 element places outside when offending input is hidden

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 595451

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Xavier Mouton-Dubosc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

When, pre-submitting a form, an hidden but required input has an invalidate value to the required format, the popup asking the user to enter a correct value is placed on the top left of the browser window.
Under Linux, when Firefox is vertically maximised, the popup is half hidden by the browser itself.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://jsfiddle.net/M8UFU/
2.place your window on the top of your desktop
3.click "try to submit"
Actual Results:  
poup goes outside the browser window.

Expected Results:  
Trying to put the popup in a more suitable place, letting it entirely readable whereas is the browser in the user's workplace

Comment 1

[Xavier Mouton-Dubosc]

Attachment: Unreadable popup when browser vertically maximised

Used addons modifying the browser layout : 
- Tree style tabs
- movable firefox button

Comment 2

[Xavier Mouton-Dubosc]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 3

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

We can't show a popup attached to the <input type=number> element if it is not shown.

Comment 4

[Xavier Mouton-Dubosc]

Why not place the popup where is the sumbmit button ? It will be more easy to view