847675 - Vertical scrollbar displayed when last line of block has an inline with a 1px bottom border

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, defect)

Description

[Dan Mellem]

Attachment: Scrollbar with ABBR

Originally reported on Bug 416752.

When a DIV is styled with overflow:auto and contains an ABBR at the end, the DIV is drawn too short, causing the scrollbar to appear. (Some other scrollbar testcases still work as well.)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This isn't special to <abbr>, I would assume.  Presumably any inline with a bottom border would do that...

It's not clear to me whether the 1px border should be triggering scrolling per se, but I see nothing in the spec that would prevent it from doing so.  That seems unfortunate.

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

Fwiw, WebKit would display a similar scrollbar given the same code / style (by default, <abbr> doesn't have any decoration in WebKit). I've always understood this to be the correct behaviour.

Comment 3

[Dan Mellem]

This is still an issue. I see this every day since our help desk software has this issue. I'll attach a screenshot if this helps.

What additional information is needed to resolve this?

Thanks.

Comment 4

[Dan Mellem]

Attachment: Screenshot of superfluous scrollbar. The DIV is sized automatically but still ends up with the scrollbar due to the styling of the ABBR for the date