Sent by Roger Roelofs on 5 August 2005 05:05
Michiel,
On 8/4/05, Michiel van der Blonk [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
> PS: yes your right about your PS, only it's not as simple as you may think.
It never is :-) I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I
thought you were new to css. I'm just returning to the list after a
time away, and some of the people are new to me, so I don't yet know
where they are on the learning curve.
> In fact we did start coding from scratch, not designing from scratch. I
> also have to educate our designers to learn that it doesn't have to look
> like a table. Problem: our main designer likes this look. Most of them even
> work with FrontPage most of the time.
I can relate. :-(
> Latest news: I isolated the bug, and it's really strange to me, it doesn't
> look like standards behaviour at all. I posted a demo to Holly & John, and
> you have it too as an attachment.
Wow! _that_ is a great test case.
You may be interested to know that this bug has been fixed for the
next major version of gecko. I tested in Deer Park alpha 2 and the
select behaves normaly.
As a work around, you could change height: 1.75em to min-height:
1.75em. For some reason this doesn't trigger the bug.
Here's a slightly smaller test case.
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<form action="">
<select name="category" style="height: 1.75em">
<option>Testing Select Box Resize so make it really really long</option>
</select>
</form>
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What triggers the bug is when the width of the form (or maybe just the
container) is less than the width of the select _and_ the select has a
defined height but no defined width. I would guess that some
variable unexpectedly goes negative and that throw off the width
calculation, but that's only a guess, and I don't care enough to go
digging around in the source :-)
--
Roger
Roger Roelofs
Know what you value.
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