92692 - different line-breaks after br and followin div-tag

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 47793

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jammni]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
BuildID:    2001072703

Look in the bottom-right frame. You will see the text "Änderungen und 
Neuaufnahmen vom ....". This text appears twice with different dates. But after 
each date follows a br-tag and the green text has it's own div-tag. But after 
the first text there are two new lines and after the second text there is only 
one new line. But it's the same code.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. write some text followed by a br-tag and an div tag
2. copy the text and insert it a second time

Actual Results:  different line-breaks with the same code

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

This appears to be because you have an open paragraph before the first "br",
producing the extra spacing.  I would suggest checking your page at
<http://validator.w3.org/> to help clear things up.

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I don't think the <BR> is important here, you get the same difference without
it. It seems like IE5 and Nav4.7 is doing something odd (collapsing margins?)
when there is a </P> missing.

Comment 4

[Jammni]

Attachment: a new testcase with a surrounding p-tag

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

We can't and shouldn't depend on whether the end tags were omitted or not.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47793 ***

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

You're right David, I had forgot that one. Verifying dup of (WONTFIX) bug 47793.