[thelist] New Netscape 6 bug

Peter-Paul Koch gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 17 05:39:09 CST 2001


>From: "Peter-Paul Koch" <gassinaumasis at hotmail.com>
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>Subject: [thelist] New Netscape 6 bug
>Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:32:38 +0000
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>In our continuing series 'Extremely Obscure Netscape 6 Bugs' we proudly 
>present the display/overflow bug:
>
>If you try to change the display of an element that is contained in an 
>element with overflow: scroll or auto, Netscape 6 usually makes all 
>elements disappear (though the very first time might work).
>
>Took me 6 hours to find this one, to the distress of my project manager, so 
>I want to report it.

Of course I forgot to add the solution: first change the overflow to visible 
or hidden, then change the display, then change back the overflow.

ppk

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