Bug 15831 – REGRESSION: Text wraps and overlaps within table cell on mercurynews.com

• Component: Layout and Rendering
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

* SUMMARY
Text wraps and overlaps within a table cell on the mercurynews.com web site.  The text does not wrap on Firefox 2.0.0.8 or Opera 9.22.

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Launch Safari/WebKit.
2. Go to URL:  http://www.mercurynews.com/realestate
3. View links next to "Search" button in "San Jose Real Estate" box.

* RESULTS
The "Advanced Search" and "Search Classifieds" links wrap and overlap.

* REGRESSION
Unknown.  Tested with Safari 3.0.4 (5523.10) on Mac OS X 10.5 (9A581).

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Created attachment 17033 [details]
Screenshot

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Happens on a local debug build of WebKit r27435 with Safari 3 Public Beta v. 3.0.3 (522.12.1) on Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) Tiger as well.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Created attachment 17228 [details]
Reduction

Reduced test case from original page.

Both Firefox 2.0.0.9 and Opera 9.24 render the text within the borders on Mac OS X Tiger.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

This is actually a regression from Safari 2.0.4 (419.3) with original WebKit on Mac OS X Tiger.  It's not clear why, though, since Safari 2 may be ignoring some of the CSS properties or interpreting them differently.  (It looks like it may render bold text differently at the same point size.)

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

This bug also reproduces in the earliest known WebKit Nightly (r11976), so bisect-builds won't provide any more information.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This is no longer reproducible on mercurynews.com for me. The reduction still fails, but so it does in Firefox 3.

[Robert Hogan]

WebKit's rendering of this matches IE10, FF22 and Opera Presto. There's no bug here anymore it seems!