[thelist] Mozilla bug??

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>A couple of days ago I posted a message "css problems"... since then I have
>narrowed it down and I think identified a bug in (at least the Mac
>implementation of) Mozilla 1.1 (release version).
>
>Absolute or relative position a div and fill it with content.
>
>Set top to 0px.
>
>Display in Moz1.1 and all is fine. Change the top to some positive non-zero
>value and the bottom of the div will now lie beyond the bottom of the page
>as interpreted by Moz1.1. On pages where the length of content carries the
>bottom of the div beyond the maximum possible window depth for the screen
>this results in inaccessible content. The "missing" content is the same
>depth as the applied "top", so this offset is not being added to the depth
>of the page.
>
>IE(Mac) gets this calculation right, Moz1.1(MacClassic) falls over. Not yet
>tested on other platforms.
>
>Do others get the same results?? Does anyone have a workaround solution
>(apart from not using absolute or relative positioning with vertical
>offsets!).

In Moz 1.1 Windows 98 your example works fine, scrollbars appear when
necessary. I never noticed such a bug, anyway. Netscape 4 did have the exact
bug you describe, though.

ppk

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