Bug Reports for April 2005

This is the monthly Bug Reports archive for April 2005.

li {overflow: auto} generates unnecessary horizontal scroll bar

Permalink | Mozilla | 1 comments
Reported on 25 April 2005

When an li element is set to overflow: auto Firefox creates a horizontal scroll bar in most cases. Short entries not containing block level tags don't suffer from this problem.

The workaround is to wrap the content of a list item in a div and set the overflow on the div instead.

(ppkwarning 03/06: the test page now seems to contain a malicious iframe.)

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Marc Pacheco.

ADMIN: No bug report

Permalink | General | 2 comments
Reported on 5 April 2005

This week there are no bug reports because none have been submitted. The previous time I posted such a message, readers of this site reacted by sending enough bug reports to make it through March, give or take a few days. Unfortunately this stream dried up last week, and this week I have nothing to show.

I'm patiently waiting for bugs to be reported, but cannot do much myself yet. Later this month I'll start on a programming job that will, hopefully, net me a few more bugs. Nonetheless the Bug Report project will fail without the submissions of my readers.

Crash when hiding :after pseudo class

Permalink | Safari | 2 comments
Reported on 1 April 2005

Safari 1.2 will crash if you try to hide a block level element, such as a div, by setting style.display to 'none', if the element contains the following :after pseudo class:

div:after
{
	content: ".";
	display: block; 
	overflow: hidden; 
}

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: sam.

Older reports

See the March 2005 archive.