Hi all

I had some issue in firefox. This first time to me that its work fine IE but not properly work in firefox. Is this a bug or some css issue I don't know. I tried to search on google but I found nothing.

I am posting here to get the perfect solution as I received in my all last post.

Whenever I refresh or load the page in firefox I saw some lines in firefox but when I switch the one window to that window all lines disappear magically.

I have attach the Image, what is the actually problem?

Thanks & Regards
Mohammed Sunely

I have already seen problems like that, but generally with firefox version 1.0.x or 1.5.x

They are rendering bugs in the firefox display engine, and you cannot do much, except try to deactivate CSS rules one after one, to see if one rule in particular trigger the error.

Personally though, I never have seen this issue again since I'm on firefox 2.
Are you up to date, or do you still use the firefox 1/1.5 branch ?

I have firefox 2.0, update version

Try to view your page with firefox 3 beta.
I know that the rendering engine had a major rewrite, and maybe this bug is gone.

At least, you would be sure that future versions are ok.

You could try with older versions too.
Here a links to "firefox portable". You can install them in separate directories, and they are isolated from your normal installation.

Firefox 1: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/p...s.exe?download
Firefox 1.5: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/por..._en-us.paf.exe
firefox 3 beta 2: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/por...f.exe?download

They all come from the http://www.portableapps.com web site, and I use them daily.
The only thing is that you cannot have 2 different versions of Firefox running at the same moment.

In order to actually see what's going on, we really need to see ALL the code. I can't tell from the image you posted, but there are so few problems with Firefox that I'm betting it's NOT FF but the code somewhere.

Thanks Tripy

I do what you say, deactivate CSS rule one by one, its a long procedure but solve my problem.

Its overflow that cause problem to me

thanks guys

Originally Posted by LadynRed

In order to actually see what's going on, we really need to see ALL the code. I can't tell from the image you posted, but there are so few problems with Firefox that I'm betting it's NOT FF but the code somewhere.

Look at those screenshots.
That one was taken in firefox 1:

and this one in firefox 1.5:


and this in firefox 2 (ff 3 behave the same):

Neither ff1 nor ff1.5 render it correctly.

The "recherche par nom" is a <span>, into a <legend> in a <fieldset> element.
It's in a span, because we need to catch click on it, and IE (6 and 7) javascript cannot access a <legend> element.
So, we put a span with a specific "rel=" value to find it via a getElementsByTagName().
Into the fieldset, there is a <form> with an input type text, and a link to submit the form.
The <fieldset> itself is into a div.

The css rules are the same, but the FF1/1.5 have a bug in the position of the content of the text field.
Here is the CSS applied to the input field:

body {
color:black;
font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif;
font-size:62.5%;
}

There are no positioning done in css, everything follows the normal flow.
I can not give you either access to the page (intranet) nor to the source (it's generated HTML via javascript from a XML data stream generated by an Oracle pl/sql procedure... Quite difficult to isolate).
But for me, this is a rendering bug.

The thing is, Firefox devotees are not going to be using an antiquated version, we tend to keep up with the LATEST versions.

From viewing a LOT of people's code, I'm seeing a lot of OVERUSE of overflow: auto, height:auto; (which is rarely necessary), width: auto; and it's generally seen with newbies.

Originally Posted by LadynRed

The thing is, Firefox devotees are not going to be using an antiquated version

True, but as I work for an university, in a controlled environment, on restricted computers, we had the case where we had complaint that the pages where badly rendered.
And we had to ask the IT department to deploy FF2 on the 4'800 computers of the campus to solve it.

I agree that it's a special case, but it was just to assert that rendering bugs can occur, especially where the developments and evolutions are active.

it was just to assert that rendering bugs can occur, especially where the developments and evolutions are active.

I won't argue with that, we all know it's true

Universities can be a special case, I've had to deal with similar lock-downs at a university hospital, it can try your patience !