Bug Reports for March 2006

This is the monthly Bug Reports archive for March 2006.

COL and COLGROUP get captured by CAPTION in Safari

Permalink | Safari | 1 comments
Reported on 28 March 2006

The correct use of the CAPTION element –immediately after the TABLE start tag– causes COL and COLGROUP to become unusable as CSS selectors in the current version of Safari (2.0.3/version 417.9.2).

A workaround is to place the CAPTION after the COL/COLGROUP tags, but this makes the code invalid.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Leif Halvard Silli.

Form input fields overflow table cell

Permalink | Safari | 0 comments
Reported on 22 March 2006

Attempting to get a text input field to expand to fill the browser in a nested table (table-layout: fixed) will cause the input field to overflow its surrounding table cell. Occurs with select boxes as well.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Matt Wright.

Positioning the legend tag

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Mozilla, Opera, Safari | 6 comments
Reported on 21 March 2006

Positioning legend tags — what works and what doesn't? To be honest not a lot does.

I've tested — position: absolute, fixed, relative, floats margins and setting widths.

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

:first-line uppercase bug

Permalink | Safari, iCab | 0 comments
Reported on 20 March 2006

In Safari and iCab, text-transform: uppercase does not work when applied to the :first-line pseudo-element.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Beckley Roberts.

Image Resizing Problems

Permalink | Explorer Mac, Mozilla, iCab | 0 comments
Reported on 17 March 2006

If an image is given various heights, but not a width, browsers enlarge it to fit the ratio of the physical dimensions of the image. But over a certain size, bugs can occur.

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

Crash with hover on links

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows | 0 comments
Reported on 16 March 2006

Hovering over a link causes the browser to freeze. It then becomes difficult to close down. The link should make a non-displayed element appear on hover.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Chris Hester.

Incorrect clientX/Y for text of disabled INPUT elements in tables

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 1 comments
Reported on 15 March 2006

The event.clientX/Y values for the text portion of disabled INPUT elements is reported relative to the left/top of the INPUT element and not the viewport if the INPUT element is in a table.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Jason Brunette.

IE7 beta 2 box width miscalculation in strict mode

Permalink | Explorer 7 beta 2 | 2 comments
Reported on 14 March 2006

In strict mode, IE7 miscalculates the width of absolutely positioned boxes with a width and padding to include the padding. It seems to revert to the old box model under these conditions. This did not happen in IE6 (strict).

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Mario Camilleri.

Shrinking of children of floated/absolute elements

Permalink | Mozilla | 0 comments
Reported on 13 March 2006

A floated or absolutely positioned element does not have a width and is stretched up by an image. When the image is swapped for a far smaller image, the parent element's width should diminish. Mozilla, though, doesn't diminish the width of the other elements in the floated element, and therefore the parent element retains its original width.

Test page. Workaround is not included.
Reported by ppk.

Older reports

See the February 2006 archive.