Bug Reports for February 2006

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Double-padding/nowrap crash

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows | 0 comments
Reported on 24 February 2006

Setting certain combinations of padding, position, and white-space CSS properties on a block/inline element pair causes Internet Explorer to freeze up. (100% CPU usage.)

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Martin Sutherland.

Incorrect handling of disabled BUTTON elements

Permalink | Safari, iCab | 0 comments
Reported on 23 February 2006

Adding disabled attributes to <BUTTON> elements in Safari does not have the desired effect.

Disabled buttons with text content are not greyed out and still respond visually to clicks (albeit without generating any onclick events).

In <BUTTON> elements with image content, the addition of a disabled atribute has no effect whatsoever.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Philip Ronan.

Changing background-color for links also changing dimensions.

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 2 comments
Reported on 22 February 2006

The style in the header says that an a tag will change background color when hovered over.

In MSIE 6.02 this changes the height of the whole table, but in Firefox (NN8.1) it works just fine.

(ppkquestion: is this a hasLayout bug? If so, why does the bug also occur in IE 7 beta 2?)

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: D W.

:first-letter bug in Mozilla Firefox

Permalink | Mozilla | 2 comments
Reported on 21 February 2006

In Mozilla Firefox 1.5 when you scroll the form so that it is off-screen at the top then scroll back on-screen the underscores on the first letter of each line sometimes do not re-appear again. When scrolling to the end of the form and backup again, and when the browser window is resized to a smal size it seems even more persistent. This bug is triggered by styling label:first-letter {text-decoration: underline}.

(ppknote: This bug is quite flighty, I myself saw it only the third time I tried the test page.)

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Johan Van Den Rym.

No background image on a textarea

Permalink | Explorer Mac, Safari | 0 comments
Reported on 20 February 2006

Safari doesn't allow you to set a background image on a textarea.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Jean-Charles Meyrignac.

Opera absolute<fixed Nested Positioning

Permalink | Opera | 1 comments
Reported on 17 February 2006

An absolute positioned element inside a fixed positioned element disappears after scrolling down one page height.

div#sidebar { position: fixed; top: 0; bottom: 0; }

div#disappearing { position: absolute; bottom: 0; }

ppknote: Opera 9 beta has a different bug, but this situation is still buggy. It doesn't recalculate the height of the fixed layer when the page is resized.

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

scrollTop in select list is always 0

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer Mac, Safari | 2 comments
Reported on 16 February 2006

It is not possible to obtain the correct scrollTop value of a select list in Explorer, regardless of strict/quirks mode. to reproduce, enter the test page, scroll the list a bit, then hit the button. The alert will display 0 value in IE, and correct value in Mozilla based browsers.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Omry Yadan.

IE print bug with white-space:pre

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 0 comments
Reported on 15 February 2006

When Explorer encounters a tag with the style white-space:pre inside a table, it will only print the first line even though it renders properly in the browser.

(ppknote: IE 7 beta 2 only shows an 'O' in the print preview)

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Jehiah.

Incorrect positions when using right and bottom

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 0 comments
Reported on 14 February 2006

If the height of a relatively positioned block is an an even number or the width an odd number, any element that’s positioned absolutly inside that block and use bottom or right will be 1px out.

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

z-index/scrollbar flickering

Permalink | Mozilla, Safari | 1 comments
Reported on 13 February 2006

Moving a div with visible scrollbars under any content causes flickering. Easy workaround: apply overflow: hidden; to moving div

Firefox specific bug

ppknote: Safari is also a bit hesitant, though the bug is different from Mozilla's.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Pawel Matyjasek.

dotted borders become dashed

Permalink | Explorer 7 beta 2 | 0 comments
Reported on 10 February 2006

If a list element's borders are defined as 1px dotted, but one border is further defined as 2px or greater, IE7b2 renders the dotted borders as dashes.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Carl Camera.

Crash when updating styles with javascript

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 0 comments
Reported on 9 February 2006

IE crashes after updating several h1's css classes and div's display style with javascript. The bug only happens when specific styles are being used, in a specific order of updating the elements, and with specific laps of time between the updates.

(ppknote: complicated bug. Please read the page carefully)

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: quentin.

list disappears on hover of anchor

Permalink | Explorer 7 beta 2 | 10 comments
Reported on 8 February 2006

When a div with a background image is follwed by a div with a negative top margin, an unordered list within the second div will disappear underneath the first div upon hovering over an anchor element within the list.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Carl Camera.

IE7b2 alignment error

Permalink | Explorer 7 beta 2 | 1 comments
Reported on 7 February 2006

IE7b2 cuts text inside divs that have width and text-align: center set. This happens only when div is placed inside table.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Pawel Matyjasek.

IE 7 label bug

Permalink | Explorer 7 beta 2 | 1 comments
Reported on 6 February 2006

In IE7, if your form is within a table, and your label elements are text-aligned to the right, they do not show properly.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Jeff L.

horizontal scrollbar due to position:relative on non-layout element

Permalink | Explorer 7 beta 2 | 1 comments
Reported on 3 February 2006

A block-level element with position:relative and hasLayout=false causes a horizontal scrollbar.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Ingo Chao.

Older reports

See the January 2006 archive.