#4390 CSS image bug showing up all over the slashdot comment pages

[Vincent Launchbury]

Part of the controls image (http://c.fsdn.com/sd/cs_sic_controls_new.png) is erroneously showing up all over the comment pages on slashdot, obscuring a lot of the text. Please refer to the attached screenshot.

See this page for an example: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/2030204/HTML-5-Takes-Aim-At-Flash-and-Silverlight. However, it happens on all comment pages I have tested, not just that one.

I'm using Gentoo (latest) and firefox 3.0.10. All font and layout settings are default.

[Vincent Launchbury]

An example slashdot comment page

[John F. Stone]

I can confirm the attached image of the behavior here on Firefox 3.0.11 on Windows XP. Launching the same page in IE7 does not show the erroneous controls.

[Ken Bloom]

If I disable (in FireBug) the CSS background: attribute in the following CSS selector (from http://c.fsdn.com/sd/idlecore-tidied.css\), then the artifacts disappear.

#commentlisting ul
li{padding-left:2em;background:transparent
url(//c.fsdn.com/sd/cs_sic_controls_new.png?T_2_5_0_261a) no-repeat scroll
6px -1847px;}

[Ken Bloom]

Looks like maybe firefox doesn't know what to do with the #commentlisting ul li.comment.contain{background-image:none} and #commentlisting ul li.contain{padding-left:0;background-image:none} stanzas that follow the one that introduces the image. Frankly, I'm not sure what to do with it either, since I can't figure out thow those are supposed to match. Why do other browsers get it right?