Dear Lynx developers,

Here is a bug from the Debian Bugs system,
see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/68/68542.html

He says that the page renders wrong when forms and links are numbered.
The page is invalid HTML, by the way.

This script creates a page with the same format mentioned in the 
original report. Try 55 as the argument.

#!/bin/bash

rm test-68542.html

for i in $( seq "$1" ); do

cat >>test-68542.html  <<EOF
<li>x<ul>
<li>1997
[<a href="http://x">Jan Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">Feb Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">Mar Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">Apr Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">May Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">Jun Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">Jul Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">Aug Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">Sep Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">Oct Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">Nov Z</a>]
[<a href="http://x">Dec Z</a>]
</li>
</ul></li>

EOF

done


cat >>test-68542.html  <<EOF

</ul>
<hr>

<h2><a name="search">Search</a> with <a 
href="http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/">Glimpse</a></h2>
<form method=post action="http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/searchlists">
Search for?
<input name="query" value="" size="40">
<input type=submit value="Search">
<input type=reset value="Reset"><br>
Words separated by a space are searched for together.  Separating them
with a comma will find files containing either one.  Separating them
with a semicolon will find files containing both.  More complex <a
href="glimpse.html#sect7">patterns</a> are possible.
</form>

EOF


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From:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lynx: Text entry field on http://lists.debian.org/ is hidden when "for
m fields are numbered"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Mailer: bug 3.2.10
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:41:47 -0700
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Package: lynx   
Version: 2.8.1-3
Severity: normal

It looks like it might be a lynx rendering bug, but I don't know the
renderer or HTML well enough to know for sure. i seem to only see it
happen on http://lists.debian.org/ on the "search with Glimpse" section
at the bottom of the page. The text entry box renders fine when "form
fields are numbered" is disabled and only "links are numbered" is
enabled.

I do not know of any other sites where this is a problem, so it may be
a bug at www.debian.org instead.   


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