98916 - Neighbouring DIVs with HEIGHT attribute overlap

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Aleksander Adamowski]

Divs which have their height set in "style" attribute overlap even though they
should be positioned one below the other.

Consider this code:
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 20px">Blah bla blah blah bla
blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah
bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah
blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla
blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah</div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 30px; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 20px">
This DIV should be below</div>

The second DIV is covering the first DIV instead of being positioned below.

However, we don't need a DIV after the first DIV - as one can see with this code:

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 20px">Blah bla blah blah bla
blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah
bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah
blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah bla
blah blah bla blah blah bla blah blah</div>
This text should be below<BR>

I will attach a testcase soon.

Comment 1

[Aleksander Adamowski]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

"height" isn't a valid HTML attribute.  This is quirks-mode-only, if that.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase #2

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Christopher, I think you misread the bug-report, he is using CSS2 height property,
not a HTML attribute, so the first testcase is valid.
But, the layout is correct, the content should overflow out of the DIV when it
can't possibly fit. (I've added a second testcase to illustrate, attachment 48802 [details]).
Resolving as INVALID.

Comment 5

[Marc Attinasi]

I agree that this is invalid, however IE6 renders it differently, apparently
ignoring the height property altogether... 

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** Bug 110621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***