Sent by Harrison, George on 17 May 2002 20:08
I've seen this bug, and probably in 9.9.5/WinNT but I don't remember for
sure. I triggered it by having a div with overflow:scroll inside a table
cell. It went away when I moved up to 9.9.9.
I thought it was pretty cool.
gh
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> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:33 AM
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> Subject: [css-d] Attention browser entomologists; rare species
> found...
>
> I believe this bug to be extremely rare. It was my good fortune to find it
> by looking in a bizarre place; inside a table.
>
> Not much attention is given to tables these days, but on another list,
> there was a call for a scrolling table. I answered the call with the code
> below.
>
> Works great in IE 5.5, works mostly in Mozilla 0.9.5 (which is the version
> I currently have), doesn't work at all in Opera 5 || 6. The bug only comes
> out in Mozilla.
>
> When the scrollbar arrows are clicked, the table body scrolls as desired,
> but also, the table width expands with each "onMousedown" and "onMouseup"
> until the table runs off the screen.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this unusual bug? Is it happening in any other
> version of Mozilla? I don't have a publicly available sample to show, and
> can't check the validity of the code right now. (I suspect it fails) You
> can see it here, yourself.
>
> <table style="overflow:hidden;" width="500" cellpadding="4"
> cellspacing="3" bgcolor="#333333" align="center" border="0">
> <th bgcolor="#aaaaee">
> Hold your position!
> </th>
> <tbody bgcolor="#ffffdd">
> <td style="padding:0;" align="center" valign="middle"
> height="200">
> <span style="display:block; height:100%; width:100%;
> line-height:25px; overflow:auto;">
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> text and text and text and text<br />
> </span>
> </td>
> </tbody>
>
> <tfoot bgcolor="#aaaacc">
> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="25">
> I come from the row down under.
> </td>
> </tfoot>
> </table>
>
>
> Amusing or what?
>
> Y-23
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