Bug Reports for May 2005

This is the monthly Bug Reports archive for May 2005.

Percentual width of absolute element is computed relative to wrong block

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2, Explorer Mac, Opera | 3 comments
Reported on 30 May 2005

A percentual width of an abolutely positioned element should be calculated relative to the containing block (the body, if there is no other absolutely positioned element. Unfortunately Explorer (Win and Mac) and Opera calculate the width relative to a static block that contains the HTML for the absolute element.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: G�rard Talbot.

Padding difference with windows and linux

Permalink | Mozilla | 6 comments
Reported on 25 May 2005

Using firefox in Windows and Linux (same version) i get a problem where i cannot specify a shadow underneath text to be consistent, because the margin/padding differences are throwing me out - i have set paddings and margins of all elements to 0 - except the one i wish to change... it's highly annoying!

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Tim.

(ppk disclaimer: I don't have a Linux test box, so I couldn't check this bug report)

Invisible text with background and float

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows | 0 comments
Reported on 23 May 2005

Text in a div with a background color followed by a div which floats to the left and another which is clear on the left is invisible.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Justin Patrin.

Explorer needs a width/height for absolute CSS layout

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 2 comments
Reported on 20 May 2005

A valid way to position an HTML element with the absolute type is by defining only the left offset, right offset, top offset, and bottom offset from parent. Opera and Firefox pass. IE 6 does not.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Peter Siewert.

Window.opener.closed behavior differs among browsers

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Mozilla, Opera | 0 comments
Reported on 18 May 2005

window.opener.closed works in IE 6 but not in Mozilla or Opera due to a known bug. Also, in IE 5 window.opener.closed DOES NOT work correctly due to another known bug. I also have a longer writeup in my blog.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Yakov Shafranovich.

Links lose underlining with text-align applied

Permalink | Opera | 1 comments
Reported on 16 May 2005

In Opera 8.0, links lose their default underlining style when text-align is applied to them.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Chris Hester.

Diagonal borders on images with empty ALT text

Permalink | Opera | 0 comments
Reported on 13 May 2005

When an empty ALT attribute is used on an IMG tag, Opera 8.0 uses diagonal borders around the image - it draws a diamond instead of a rectangle.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Chris Hester.

guillotine w/ absolute positioned divs

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows | 2 comments
Reported on 11 May 2005

In Internet Explorer you won't be able to view all of an absolutely positioned div because IE doesn't 'create' a scrollbar.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Mark Janssen.

Using internal link triggers load event

Permalink | Explorer Mac, Safari | 1 comments
Reported on 9 May 2005

Explorer Mac and Safari also trigger the onload event when you use an internal anchor to jump to. The jump is executed time and again.

(ppknote: This bug is closely related to Setting location.hash to the same value twice causes reload, but it's not quite the same.)

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Benjamin Eric Morin.

Older reports

See the April 2005 archive.