Expanding textarea stretches beneath the widgets when direction is RTL in IE

[Alia Naguib]

Locale: English

Browsers: IE8/Windows 7

Procedure:

1- Set the direction to Right to left RTL (use dir="rtl")

2- Add an expanding Textarea

3- Place some widgets beneath it

4- Write some text in the textarea until it starts to expand vertically downwards

Expected Result:

1- Textarea expands and the content of the rest of the page is pushed downwards with each expansion

Actual Result:

1- Textarea expands and the content of the rest of the page remains in place. Thus, the textarea starts expanding underneath the widgets

[Douglas Hays]

I'm going to need a failing testcase. This works fine for me on IE8/Win7.
​http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/dijit/tests/form/test_Textarea.html?dir=rtl

[Douglas Hays]

patch from Hossam Katory (IBM, CCLA)

[Alia Naguib]

Testcase used

[Alia Naguib]

The attached file "test_textarea.html" is the testcase I am using. The direction is set in the body tag itself.

[bill]

I tried the test case with IE8 and it works fine for me. Perhaps it was a bug that was fixed in IE, or it only fails on true RTL machines?

The other problem is that you didn't say which Textarea in that file to type into.