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  1. innerHTML in XHTML pages (9)
    "In Firefox 1.5.0.2 (Gecko 1.8), ..."
    by Jamie on 16 April 2006
  2. Disappearing forms (1)
    "You can automatically clear floa..."
    by Tino Zijdel on 13 April 2006
  3. Positioning the legend tag (6)
    "Not sure if anyone is still watc..."
    by Marc Pacheco on 6 April 2006
  4. IE7 beta 2 box width miscalculation in strict mode (2)
    "Yes, this CSS bug has been corre..."
    by Mario Camilleri on 29 March 2006
  5. COL and COLGROUP get captured by CAPTION in Safari (1)
    "The same problem can be seen in ..."
    by Philippe on 29 March 2006
  6. Removing inline border styles (2)
    "Martyn's method works in Safari ..."
    by Steve Clay on 28 March 2006
  7. IE 5.5 and 6 set left coordinate relative to wrong block (2)
    "As far as I can see, this bug is..."
    by Gérard Talbot on 25 March 2006

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The Bug Report system is entirely dedicated to finding, mending and publishing CSS and JavaScript browser bugs. Anyone can report bugs, and I hope that the existence of this system will lead to more and better bug reports.

Below you find the latest bug reports and a few resurrected ones.

Disappearing forms

Permalink | Safari, iCab | 1 comments
Reported on 12 April 2006

In Safari, if you have a form that's inside a div with the clearfix (read about it here) class applied, the form will not show up on the page unless you specifically apply display: block to the containing div.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Amber Rhea.

CSS Bug in MSIE 6 - Selector with an ID and a Class on the Same Element

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows | 0 comments
Reported on 10 April 2006

Let's say that you have an element with an id of id. This element can have either of two different classes, classOne or classTwo. (Either you're swapping the className in script, or it can have different classes on different pages.)

Your CSS might look like this:

#id.classOne { some styles }
#id.classTwo { some different styles }

In MSIE 6, the #id.classTwo style will never be applied - unless it is put in a separate style tag or style sheet.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Isaac Z. Schlueter.

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.

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Below you find a few resurrected bug reports.

IE 7 label bug

Permalink | Explorer 7 beta 2 | 1 comments
Reported on 6 February 2006

In IE7, if your form is within a table, and your label elements are text-aligned to the right, they do not show properly.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Jeff L.

Radio check moves on reload when form field is removed

Permalink | Mozilla | 0 comments
Reported on 2 November 2005

When a form field before a group of radio buttons is removed from the document, and the page is subsequently reloaded, the check mark of the radio buttons moves upward.

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

position:relative breaks out of overflow constraints

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | 1 comments
Reported on 9 September 2005

In any non-quirks mode doctype, content with position:relative within a block container with overflow: auto, scroll or hidden and a height shorter than its contents, will spill out past the bottom of the container.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Emmett Pickerel.

position:absolute and overflow:auto causing text box cursor to disappear

Permalink | Mozilla | 3 comments
Reported on 17 June 2005

When several DHTML layers on top of each other all contain an input field, and one of these layers has overflow: auto the cursor in the other input boxes becomes invisible.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Murray Hopkins.

Containing floats inside overflow:auto

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Opera | 2 comments
Reported on 17 March 2005

When a block set to overflow: auto contains floats Opera and Explorer Windows don't contain the floats correctly.

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

Custom DTDs interpreted incorrectly

Permalink | Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2, Explorer Mac, Mozilla, Safari | 5 comments
Reported on 2 February 2005

When creating custom DTDs like the one below, all browsers except Opera see the end of the ATTLIST as the end of the DOCTYPE. The result is that they print "]>" on the screen.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
[
<!ATTLIST p behavior CDATA #IMPLIED>
]>

Test page. Workaround is not included
Reported by ppk.