71389 - scrollbar space reserved when it shouldn't be

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Martin Lucina]

Load page into browser. You will get 5 SELECT elements of varying widths.

Notice that scrollbars on  2 and 4 (from left) are OK, while the others have
blank space or random pixmap where the scrollbar should normally be.

This problem seems to be related to the setting of the CSS width attribute on
the SELECT element, in that it only occurs if width is set to less than what 
the SELECT element's natural width would be.

Appears to have been introduced somewhere between build ID 2001022209 and
2001022321 and is still present in current builds (eg. 2001030813).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Seeing this with 2001-03-08-10 on Solaris as well.  With the new viewmanager and
with the old one both.

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

This is probably a "WON'T FIX", eventually here we will use XBL form controls 
and it will get fixed at that time.

Comment 3

[Martin Lucina]

"Eventually" = post mozilla1.0? Seems like a fairly ugly thing to leave post
1.0, even if it doesn't actually break any functionality. And besides, it worked
in mozilla0.8.

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

can this bug be resolved as invalid, as the over three years old testcase can´t
be found at the URL any more?

http://socrates.catalyst.net.nz/~mato/listings.html

Not Found
The requested URL /~mato/listings.html was not found on this server.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

Martin: do you still have a testcase for this bug?  can you attach it here?

Comment 6

[Martin Lucina]

No, sorry. I haven't seen this anywhere since, so let's just resolve it as
INVALID for now.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

OK.  Please reopen if this reappears.  Thanks!