Only the 1st 198 links on a page display properly. The rest over flow as text.
Looking at a page with over 198 links appears to overflow an internal Firefox table. The 1st 198 links on a page display properly and these links work just fine. All the links starting with 199 and beyond display on the screen as plain test, all flow together across the screen and are not active for clicking. I just upgraded from FF 3.6.24 t0 FF 8.0. It works fine for FF 3.6 & IE. Any suggestions on how to fix this? It renders the web pages useless. The URL in is one of our company's internal web pages that are not public, I created the page. It just a simple, but long list of links for the user to click on. Each link brings up a data usage graph and we have over 600 graphs on some of these pages that are each individually selectable.
I expect the problem could be re-created by simply listing over 200 links on any single page and accessing it with the newer FF release. I simply made a sequentially numbered list of items. Everything after item 199 is broken.
Any suggestions are welcome. BobM
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I was already suspecting something like that as we've seen this posted before.
The new HTML5 parser doesn't cope well with such a nesting of tags.
Adding a closing </font> would be the right thing to do.
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Make sure that all tags are closed properly.
Can you post the first part of that code?
What do you see in the DOM Inspector if you examine those links?
Thanks for the post... I installed DOM and it shows the web page exactly like the new version of FireFox. (BTW: This is a problem for everyone that has upgraded to version 7 or higher of FF, so it's not unique to me or my environment.)
I'll paste the following two tings in this append. 1) What the page looks like in DOM/FF (Image 1) and the starting lines of HTML that composes the page. Since this, and many other pages like this one, are automatically generated via a script on unix, we experience this issue on all the longer pages. (> 199 links) DOM/FF show(See image 1) HTML: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.8 [en] (X11; U; AIX 4.3) [Netscape]"> <title>Cadence Corporate Enterprise License Usage</title> <title>Images graphs in dir: 2011</title> <center>
Cadence Corporate Enterprise License Usage
(Year: 2011, Updated: 11-24-11)
</center>
<font size=+1>Feature usage plots available: (688)</font>
<font size=+0>Individual Plots Click here==> All plots at one time Max Usage Report
I just made a big discovery: The html file is composed of a large number of links, sequentially listed one after another. Each link starts with a font size definition: <font size="-1"> 1) <font size="-1"> 2) <font size="-1"> 3) etc.
This is unnecessary and seems to be overflowing the font buffer in the newer releases of FF. Thanks for suggesting the use of DOM. I noticed an increasing indentation of fonts defined in the nodeName list. As an experiment, I removed all but the 1st font definition and the pages now display correctly.
Though this is a bug in the newer FF, I can correct the problem by not re-defining a font for each- entry. (Looks like I need to update the HTML generator script.
I suggest this get fixed in FF as well. I suspect other will run into font definition limitations. It would be nice to have the same capacity as the old version of FF.
Thanks for your help.
BobM
</font> </font> </font>
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I was already suspecting something like that as we've seen this posted before.
The new HTML5 parser doesn't cope well with such a nesting of tags.
Adding a closing </font> would be the right thing to do.