Bug #67524 kilometers of whitespace
Submitted: 8 Nov 2012 18:36 Modified: 28 Nov 2012 16:07
Reporter: Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Won't fix Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version: OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[8 Nov 2012 18:36] Peter Laursen
Description:
This page http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/information-schema.html (and same for all server versions have a lot of whitespace between the header and the body.  It is confuxing - you will think the page is empty.

How to repeat:
see above

Suggested fix:
Remove whitespace.
[8 Nov 2012 18:57] MySQL Verification Team
Manual Page

Attachment: manual_page.png (image/png, text), 142.92 KiB.

[8 Nov 2012 18:58] MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the bug report. Please see attached picture is the same you get?. Thanks.
[8 Nov 2012 20:52] Peter Laursen
How the page displays in Opera browser .. scoll down a lot of lines lines and content displays

Attachment: white.jpg (image/jpeg, text), 49.73 KiB.

[8 Nov 2012 20:53] Peter Laursen
I get the same  .. after scrolling down 200-500 lines!
[9 Nov 2012 11:21] MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the feedback. I was able to repeat only with Firefox 16.02 in one machine running Windows 7 Professional on same machine IE and Chrome don't present that issue, another machine with Windows Ultimate don't present the issue evenm with Firefox 16.2. Please test with another browser.
[10 Nov 2012 14:16] Peter Laursen
Whitespace appears in Firefox ("13.0.1" + "16.0.2") and in Google Chrome "23.0.1271.64 m". It does not in Internet Explorer "9-0-8112.16421".   

And most weird: it does not in Opera "12.02" today - but it did the day I reported this! (I always use Opera unless I have a reason not to do).

System is Win7/64 bit (Home Premium)
[12 Nov 2012 13:41] MySQL Verification Team
I was able to repeat just with Firefox on Windows 7 Professional.
[28 Nov 2012 16:07] Stefan Hinz
Yeah, that's the navigation sidebar to the right getting in the way when chapter or section titles contain a long-ish word that can't be hyphenated (INFORMATION_SCHEMA in this case). When you click the [Toggle] link next to "Section Navigation", the contents magically jump up to the top of the page.

Unfortunately, there's nothing the Documentation Team can do about it, since we're not in control of the Section Navigation sidebar, thus closing this bug as Won't Fix.