84124 - problems displaying javascript-based menu

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P2)

Description

[Jens Michael Wannenmacher]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)
BuildID:    20010530

The menu of the page http://www.orga.de is displayed wrong. Normally there 
should be an application-like menu, but mozilla not seems to be able to display 
the menu. Try the site on Internet Explorer (5.x) to see the right behaviour of 
the site's menu.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. surf to http://www.orga.de


Actual Results:  incorrectly displayed menu (JavaScript)

Expected Results:  application-like menu should be displayed

try to visit the site with IE 5.x to see the right behaviour of the menu. Seems 
to be a bug in the JS-Module of mozilla. I tried to fix it but could not solve 
the problem up to now.

Comment 1

[Conor Lennon]

*** Bug 84127 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Conor Lennon]

*** Bug 84126 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Conor Lennon]

*** Bug 84125 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page uses a lot of browser-sniffing and serves up different JS to different 
browsers.

http://www.orga.de/scripts/clientSniff.js is loaded first, then the actual menu 
JS file.  It looks like the scripts should properly detect Mozilla as a W3C DOM 
browser and load http://www.orga.de/scripts/PMN_DOM.js

However this latter file still has branching for IE5 vs other browsers.  Perhaps 
one of the code forks is done wrong... Jens Michael Wannenmacher, what do you 
see in the JS console on this site?

Comment 5

[Conor Lennon]

I have worked out a minimised testcase.
The problem appears to be that a div with a position of relative has problems
with a child that has a position of absolute.
I'll attach my testcase.

Comment 6

[Conor Lennon]

Attachment: testcase showing problem

Comment 7

[Conor Lennon]

I should of course point out that the menus are working.  The problem is the
position of them and how they are affecting other elements (their parents).

Comment 8

[Jason Belcher]

I'm seeing strange things happening with the javascript menu and news scroller
on http://www.ljbc.wa.edu.au/ too. Similar type menu, but I'm not sure if they
are related (I know hardly anything about javascript code). This one can do
strange things like have links all over the place, or (usually) not even display
at all.

Comment 9

[Conor Lennon]

This bug appears to be a dupe of at least one of bug 56894, bug 78880 and bug 74094.

Comment 10

[Phil Schwartau]

I agree with Conor; reassigning to DOM Style for disposition - 

Comment 11

[Jens Michael Wannenmacher]

I see nothing on the console...

Comment 12

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

-> HTML Tables. Basically, there's a table sizing problem on reflow. It's not 
a bug in the DOMCSS code.

amar: It might be possible to simplify this testcase even further.

Comment 13

[Jens Michael Wannenmacher]

The bug appears after loading the complete site, before that moment everything 
seems to be allright.

Comment 14

[Jens Michael Wannenmacher]

changed priority of the bug because there weill be more and more users using 
Mozilla or Netscape 6.x that will have a problem to view some pages correctly 
and because nothing has been done since June 2001.

Comment 15

[Jens Michael Wannenmacher]

amar: are you going to solve that prob. in the future (perhaps until the final 
is released) ?

Comment 16

[anthonyd]

I don't know.  This site looks just like it does in IE.  Reporter, does this 
work for you now?

Comment 17

[Jens Michael Wannenmacher]

YEs it works because we changed the Script of that site

Comment 18

[karnaze (gone)]

Temporarily moving to future until a milestone can be assigned. 

Comment 19

[Mathew McBride]

*Outdated, Worksforme*. Site now has different web design to one mentioned.
Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020608
(SeaMonkey Build Mozilla/1.1Alpha)

Comment 20

[karnaze (gone)]

mass reassign to default owner

Comment 21

[José Jeria]

When you hover the menu on this site a submenu appears, but the actual menu you
hovered disappears. Dont know if this was the original problem for this bug. 

Get a javascript error:
Error: x is not defined
Source File: http://www.orga.de/hps/client/orga/public/hxcms/js/menu_moz.js
Line: 1130

Comment 22

[Andrew Schultz]

testcase worksforme with linux trunk 2005060102 and 1.7.  table is not oversized
as it is with older builds and the "big text" shows/hides properly.

resolving WORKSFORME
reopen if there's still a problem with the original bug