88581 - Inline a HREF displaying over normal text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63831

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[scott]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628
BuildID:    2001062823

Instead of underlined, blue text inline with text, links are showing up printed
on top of other text.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to url above.
2.Look at text in middle column


Actual Results:  Links look funny

Expected Results:  Links should not look funny.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

html element

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I'm not seeing this with linux build 2001-07-06-08....  screenshot?

Comment 3

[scott]

Attachment: The world's worst screenshot. - look at second para under Mozilla 0.9.2 released.

Comment 4

[scott]

This bug has since gone intermittent on me, but I did manage to get a 
screenshot.  This is the shot I submitted for bug 88580, which has also become 
intermittent. Sorry about the quality.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

hmm.  Scott, what X server are you using?  Are you using TrueType fonts?

Comment 6

[scott]

XF86 4.1.0, Voodoo3 with TrueType.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "PDT+ Linux: wrong width for 8 bit data rendered with 16 bit font"
via bug 59915 ("Failing to calculate width of TrueType fonts on XFree 4.0").

Oh, and this should be fixed in today's builds.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63831 ***

Comment 8

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.