Bug Reports for March 2005

This is the monthly Bug Reports archive for March 2005.

Table rows collection incorrect

Permalink | Safari | 1 comments
Reported on 31 March 2005

The rows collection for tables in Safari is incorrect. It appears that Safari includes <th> elements in the rows collection. Using getElementsByTagName("tr") returns the correct collection.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: David Clarke.

Remotely loaded XML DOM converted to HTML content model

Permalink | Safari | 2 comments
Reported on 29 March 2005

When loading XML through XMLHttpRequest, the resulting DOM does not allow access to content of elements, which happen to have the same element name in html AND which have an empty content model in html.

Example: the <link>...</link> element from various RSS flavors is not available in Safari, using DOM methods, because an empty <link/> element is defined for html.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Johannes la Poutr�.

Problem with em values greater than 20.47em

Permalink | Opera | 5 comments
Reported on 25 March 2005

Opera 7 shows a rough quantization error when a margin or a padding is expressed in em units and the value of the property is greater than (about) 20.47em. In these conditions the decimals are simply ignored. For example, all margins of 21em, 21.1em, … up to 21.9em are rendered exactly the same. This is not a simple rounding error.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Bruno Fassino.

setAttribute does not work when used with the style attribute

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 6 comments
Reported on 24 March 2005

Using setAttribute, you should be able to set any attribute on an element. It appears that in IE, trying to set the style attribute does not work.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Dan Nye.

Lack of spaces can cause css image failure

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 0 comments
Reported on 23 March 2005

When using a css image, if there is no space between the end url bracket and the attributes following it, IE6 will not display the image.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: R.

Small-caps and spaces

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows | 0 comments
Reported on 18 March 2005

Be careful using font-variant: small-caps in IE6, because spaces have the size of the original font and can cause positioning problems.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Paul van Steenoven.

Containing floats inside overflow:auto

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Opera | 2 comments
Reported on 17 March 2005

When a block set to overflow: auto contains floats Opera and Explorer Windows don't contain the floats correctly.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Marc Pacheco.

Usemap attribute wrongly case sensitive

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer Mac | 3 comments
Reported on 16 March 2005

IE is wrongly case sensitive about the usemap attribute of an image map. To change the map for an image in run time, you have to set the attribute "useMap", which is against the XHTML Strict standard. In a proper situation, you should set the "usemap" attribute.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Pauli Ojanper�.

Disappearing select box text within block labels

Permalink | Mozilla, Opera | 1 comments
Reported on 15 March 2005

When using an attribute selector like label[accesskey] in conjunction with the display: block: on a label element, a child select box will go blank and/or act strange in mozilla/firefox.

In Opera the last two "act funny" boxes also act funny.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Brian Latimer.

Inline fieldsets and floating form fields

Permalink | Safari | 1 comments
Reported on 14 March 2005

When you place a display inline on a fieldset and the form elements within the fieldset are floated, the form elements wont be clickable by Safari.
Using a position relative will fix this.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Paul van Steenoven.

Capitalizing "text-transform: capitalize"

Permalink | Mozilla, Opera | 2 comments
Reported on 11 March 2005

If the string "text-transform: capitalize" is text-transformed to capitalize, should the "t" of "-transform" be capitalized, too?

Opera and Mozilla say No, but they're in the minority. Therefore this is officially a bug in Opera and Mozilla.

Test page. Workaround is not included.
Reported by ppk.

Safari white space bug

Permalink | Safari | 1 comments
Reported on 10 March 2005

​ works only when a text string is present. When the text consists of numbers only it doesn't work.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Alexander Popov.

Absolute positioning and text-align

Permalink | Explorer Mac, Opera | 0 comments
Reported on 9 March 2005

Opera misplaces absolutely-positioned elements when their containing block is subject to text-align of center or right. It places them where they would have been if they were subject to text-align:left.

Explorer Mac positions the text correctly, but makes the divs far too wide.

Note that you need to be setting display:inline on a DIV, or similar, to be affected by this.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Phil Endecott.

Image swap resize bug

Permalink | Safari | 5 comments
Reported on 8 March 2005

When swapping images with javascript Safari will stretch the new image to the size of the previous image, unless the previous and new images have different widths AND heights.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Justin Heideman.

click EventListener on select box ignored in capturing phase

Permalink | Opera | 1 comments
Reported on 7 March 2005

Opera 7.54 seems to ignore a click EventListener on Select boxes in capturing phase.

The test case containers the smallest code needed to reproduce the bug. A workround is not possible in the capturing phase.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Jorgen Horstink.

Older reports

See the February 2005 archive.