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[Mercury]

The review portion where, when posting in an existing threat, you can see the earlier posts in the threat has some peculiar bugs.

Specifically when you scroll through them, the text of some of the entries magically disappears. I can't for the life of me figure out why this happens, but it is a big annoyance since I often use the review to see what I was replying to again. Brend, do you have any idea how this can happen?

[Brend]

I can't really give you a reason off the top of my head.

Was it a very long thread? If so, maybe the forum limits the number of posts in the review... Or do arbitrary posts disappear? (Give me a link to the thread so I can try this myself... No promisses though for this week)

[Mercury]

It happens on all threats where there is scrolling required in the review. Scrolling through the review topic area appears to trigger it, oddly enough.

[Brend]

I'll look into this in the coming week. It sounds like either a styling issue (maybe long lists of the new message styling somehow screw up the element float placement), or it's the infernal forum software again (which might have some stupid limit for some reason...)

[Brend]

I seem unable to reproduce this bug. Can you give me a screenshot of the issue, and a link to the thread where you took the screenshot from?

[Mercury]

I'll show you Tuesday.

[Brend]

Ok. I have now been able to reproduce this bug.

After some testing, it seems to be a rendering bug in firefox; if the text disappeared it will eventually be redrawn after some time (possibly only while not moving the cursor). This issue has to do with the 'overflow' CSS property and height settings of the '#topicreview' element.

The fix will be disabling the whole scroll-bar feature, and just displaying the whole list as-is. I will do this after dinner, as it involves updating (at least) the following:

• PM viewing
• PM writing
• Topic replying

[Brend]

Ok. I fixed the issue by removing the Collapse/Expand option from the topic review (in both forum posts and PMs).

If you spot a collapsed (with scrollbar) review anywhere, let me know.