81678 - portion on top of page gets cut when viewed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171830

(Core :: Layout, defect, P1)

Description

[shrirang khanzode]

NT build 20010517

steps:

go to this page above
observe that there is a white space in between the advertisement banner on top 
right and the text with yellow background. 

actually this was appearing much worse in debug build..hmm

Comment 1

[shrirang khanzode]

kwd: qawanted

Comment 2

[doctor__j]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

The problem seems to be a bogus <link> tag (no quotes around attributes, no
type) that is used to link the style sheet that makes the fonts tiny enough to
fit in the table cells.

Shouldn't this be evang? (The problem occurs in IE 5.1 Pre on Mac OS X also...)

Comment 4

[Alexandru Savulov]

Attachment: the html code that causes the gaps to appear

Comment 5

[Alexandru Savulov]

attachment 46006 [details] contains the reduced test case that causes the gaps to appear
in the layout. the javascript code is needed to reproduce.

What is going on (explanation):

There are 3 <span> elements all having the same name and same id.
At the beginning the first one is visible, while the subsequent aren't.
(they have the style="display:none" set)

after the table is loaded, the function cov_MarqStart is called and
the ticker starts to change the style:

  aCms[iMarqOld].style.display="none";
  aCms[iMarqCur].style.display="";

after few ticks the span that gets hidden do not disapear anymore.

Another problem on this page is the text size. If you decrease it from your
"view" menu you will reduce gaps like the one seen underneath the horse/man
image in the attachment 35282 [details]

Comment 6

[Alexandru Savulov]

in the previous comment with "this page" i meant www.msnbc.com

Comment 7

[karnaze (gone)]

reassigning to m0.9.6

Comment 8

[karnaze (gone)]

In the testcase, the cell's block shows all 3 spans. -->attinasi

Comment 9

[karnaze (gone)]

ditto

Comment 10

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

www.msnbc.com page has changed and I no longer see the problem there so removing
the top100 keyword and the URL.

Comment 11

[Marc Attinasi]

Moving Mozilla 1.01 bugs to 'future' milestone with priority P1

I will be pulling bugs from 'future' milestones when scheduling later work.

Comment 12

[Chris Petersen]

Confirming the site has been changed so I can no longer reproduced it. Shrirang,
I wonder if we should mark this bug as works for me.

Comment 13

[shrirang khanzode]

how about alex's testcase, it still shows the gaps in it? I agree the page is 
changed now...

Comment 14

[Chris Petersen]

Opps.. Yes, I see it in the testcase still.

Comment 15

[Alexandru Savulov]

ok, since marc is not here anymore....

Comment 16

[Alexandru Savulov]

ok, since marc is not here anymore....

Comment 17

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Fixed between 2003-03-06-08 and 2003-03-07-08.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171830 ***