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ivan-rt-devel at freeside

Jul 2, 2012, 4:40 PM

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Chrome rendering problem: text boxes (and textareas + the rich text editor) overflow

Recently upgraded our server to RT 4 in anticipation of upgrading our
customer installs, and I'm seeing some UI glitches in Chrome. Screenshot:
http://freeside.biz/~ivan/chrome.png

To duplicate: pull up the ticket creation or reply/comment page in
Chrome. If the boxes input appear okay at first, resize the browser
window to be very narrow, then make it wider slowly until you see the
problem. I'm also getting reports that the initial rending is showing
the problem (perhaps the OS or window manager does an implicit resize?).

Reproduced in Chromium 20 on Debian and Chrome 20 on Windows XP.

I messed with this for a while, but my CSS-fu is woefully lacking, and I
don't appear to be any closer to a solution than when I started.
Throwing this out there to see if anyone else has ideas on how to fix.

(Current workaround is to disable the two-column layout for Chrome users.)

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Ivan Kohler
President and Head Geek, Freeside Internet Services, Inc. http://freeside.biz/
Debian GNU/Linux developer | CPAN author | cat person | ski addict
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trs at bestpractical

Jul 2, 2012, 4:49 PM

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Re: Chrome rendering problem: text boxes (and textareas + the rich text editor) overflow [In reply to]

On 07/02/2012 04:40 PM, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> Recently upgraded our server to RT 4 in anticipation of upgrading our
> customer installs, and I'm seeing some UI glitches in Chrome. Screenshot:
> http://freeside.biz/~ivan/chrome.png
>
> To duplicate: pull up the ticket creation or reply/comment page in
> Chrome. If the boxes input appear okay at first, resize the browser
> window to be very narrow, then make it wider slowly until you see the
> problem. I'm also getting reports that the initial rending is showing
> the problem (perhaps the OS or window manager does an implicit resize?).

This is a quirk caused by the rich text editor. It scales wider but
doesn't always scale back narrower correctly. It's been pretty low
priority to investigate a fix however, because I've only seen it
triggered by pathological reproduction cases similar to the above.
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