Bug Reports for October 2005

This is the monthly Bug Reports archive for October 2005.

hidden input / float bug - trailing text rendered twice

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows | 1 comments
Reported on 25 October 2005

Pages with width-defined layouts have the last several characters displayed twice when hidden inputs are included inside the layout container.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Dusty.

Empty values of radio buttons and checkboxes are "on"

Permalink | Opera | 3 comments
Reported on 24 October 2005

When a radio button or a checkbox has a value="" (empty), Opera nonetheless reports a value="on".

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Markus Fischer.

Replacing href in links may also change content of links

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 0 comments
Reported on 20 October 2005

Under some circumstances the changing the href-attribute of a link also changes the content of the link itself.

This seems to happen when the raw content of the link starts with www.something (and does not need to relatve to the real href in anyway).

Putting redundant span-tags inside the link solves this.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Markus Fischer.

IE6 input field top/bottom unwanted margin

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2, Opera, Safari | 4 comments
Reported on 19 October 2005

The INPUT (type=text/password) field in IE6 (and older probably too) has a top and bottom margin of 1px in both quirks and standard mode. This can cause a not so nice effect.

(ppknote: Opera and Safari have the same problem with the right margin)

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Marcel Lipovsky.

Anchor Border Shortened When Inheriting Line-Spacing Property

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 0 comments
Reported on 14 October 2005

The content box surrounding an anchor (A) element is truncated when the A elements inside a block element that inherits a non-zero letter-spacing value and appears immediately after a top-borderless DIV element.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Carl Camera.

Radio's name attribute doesn't work when using appendChild()

Permalink | Safari | 0 comments
Reported on 13 October 2005

When trying to dynamically create radio buttons with createElement() and appendChild() I noticed that the name and type of the radios weren't being appended along with the radio element.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Calophi.

Block level element inline-block hack

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 1 comments
Reported on 12 October 2005

IE doesn't apply the value inline-block for the CSS display property on HTML elements that default to block level without the hack detailed here.

ppknote 4-feb-06: Workaround doesn't work in IE 7 beta 2.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Spartanicus.

Safari doesn't redraw page on content resize

Permalink | Safari | 0 comments
Reported on 11 October 2005

When you have dynamic content on a single page, Safari doesn't always redraw properly to accommodate the new size of the content. Safari will not redraw the scrollbars, and worse, it will completely "freeze" if you have already scrolled down the page and then clicked a link to load new content of a different size. The only way to get the window to redraw is by grabbing the risize handle in the lower right and physically resizing the window.

The workaround consists of using object detection to target Safari, and then "tickling" the window size (i.e., resizing by a pixel and then reverting back to the original window size).

(ppknote: this behaviour seems to occur only in Safari 2.0.1, not in 1.3.1)

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Chris.

Browsers bail on DOM button.type="button"

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2, Explorer Mac, Opera | 1 comments
Reported on 10 October 2005

The following will throw an exception:

The only workaround for dynamically creating <button type="button"> seems to be to convert the button HTML to a string and append it to innerHTML.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Garret Wilson.

Caption in table affects rollover

Permalink | Opera | 0 comments
Reported on 7 October 2005

Applying a JavaScript highlighter rollover function to a table cell or row, which has a caption element, causes the color re-draw to be applied incorrectly.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Alun Jones.

Mouseover Not Fired In Bottom Padding, Border

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows | 1 comments
Reported on 6 October 2005

IE6 is not firing a mouseover event in the bottom padding or border areas when a DIV width is not defined, or set to width:auto.

As a workaround, setting a width brings the expected mouseover behavior back.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Carl Camera.

Border Padding Parallel Bug

Permalink | Opera | 0 comments
Reported on 5 October 2005

Opera 7.x-8.5 will add padding-bottom to an object that is equal to the border-top if you use border-width and have the object positioned bottom.

I have found a workaround. If you do not have four seperate values for border-width the bug isn't rendered. You can also use border-color and border-style and use border: to set four seperate values for border-width without actually using the border-width syntax.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: John A. Bilicki III.

Change event doesn't fire on autocomplete

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows | 1 comments
Reported on 4 October 2005

The change event doesn't fire in IE when fields are filled from the browser's autocomplete list.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Jehiah Czebotar.

Older reports

See the September 2005 archive.