95055 - webelements.com - "Login" button forum is mixed with text

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Niels Aufbau]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.webelements.com/board/.
2. Look at the login box on the right.

Actual result: the "Login" button is part of a block of text explaining how to
create a new account.

Expected result: the "Login" button should be under the block of text, with a
blank line in between, like in Opera and Internet Explorer.

Comment 1

[Aaron Kaluszka]

INVALID I think.. page uses HTML 4.01.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Er.... except a form is still a block box in both quirks and strict mode, right?

Comment 3

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Hmm.. well then could it be the fact that the page hardly ever uses quotes 
around the attribute parameters?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This looks like a valid layout bug to me, pending a reduced testcase...

Comment 5

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Hah! Problem is due to misnested center and font tags.  In fact, if you just
move the </center> from the end of the text to just before </form> and leave the
font where it is, form acts like a block, as usual.  This may well be a content
model/parser problem.

Comment 6

[James Cox]

After some testing, a few wrong paths, we've worked out that this is not a
layout issue, but an evangelism issue. The layout errors occured due to badly
nested tags, (principally the <form></form> tags), causing a <br> to be inserted
in IE, which wasn't present in Mozilla. 

Mozilla seems to be more standards correct, so this is an evangelism issue.

Attached a test case document to demonstrate the issue.

Comment 7

[James Cox]

Attachment: simplest reproducible test case.

Comment 8

[anthonyd]

looks the same for me on both IE and 6.x.  WORKSFORME.

Comment 9

[Niels Aufbau]

The testcase looks the same in IE and Mozilla (it's wrong in both), but
http://www.webelements.com/board/ still looks fine in IE and bad in Mozilla.

Comment 10

[Niels Aufbau]

The site worksforme with build 2002012008.