Bug Reports for January 2006

This is the monthly Bug Reports archive for January 2006.

IE won't allow document.createElement('style')

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2, Explorer Mac | 12 comments
Reported on 18 January 2006

If you try to add style declarations in the head of a document, IE borks at the name 'style' - "unexpected call to method or property access".

I guess its getting confused between the head element <style> and the object property .style?

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Ross Howard.

Explorer z-index bug

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 2 comments
Reported on 17 January 2006

In Internet Explorer positioned elements generate a new stacking context, starting with a z-index value of 0. Therefore z-index doesn't work correctly.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Tino Zijdel.

Mirror margins

Permalink | Opera | 1 comments
Reported on 16 January 2006

Setting LI margins (margin-top:40px; margin-bottom:0px) or any other combination does not change the layout: Opera *always* duplicates the margin-top value for the bottom margin.

Tested in Opera 8.51. ppknote: Solved in Opera 9.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Spark.

Stretched buttons bug

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 4 comments
Reported on 5 January 2006

If an input is given a type "button" or "submit" and the value used to apply text to the button is over 18 characters long, the button is shown stretched horizontally. The top and bottom border is also thicker. The effect increases with the length of the button text used.

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

class+id with pseudo-elements

Permalink | Safari | 1 comments
Reported on 4 January 2006

A selector that uses both an element's class and id together with a pseudo-element is not recognized by Safari 2.0.2.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Andrew Vit.

clear:both margin bug?

Permalink | Mozilla, Safari | 5 comments
Reported on 3 January 2006

While comparing IE and Firefox 1.5 I found a different behaviour of FF 1.5 to FF 1.0.7.

Using Floats and an end div with clear both with a margin will show different behavior on different browsers. Especially using clear and minus margin in Firefox will not work, FF ignores minus margin in combination with clears.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Thomas Vavra.

Changing the type of an input field

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2, Explorer Mac, Opera | 2 comments
Reported on 2 January 2006

Setting the type attribute of an input element to button via setAttribute('type', 'button') does not work in Internet Explorer 6 or Opera 8.51. The bug is fixed in Opera 9 technology preview 1.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Stijn Peeters.

Older reports

See the December 2005 archive.