Last modified: 2014-05-30 11:33:23 UTC
Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP specific flavor of bug #64093 (but apparently also present on IE6, but I wouldn't know, as I can't be bothered to test anything on IE6).
This is also true (for me) with a IE11 on Win7
There is also a slightly related patch at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/127358 which will enable standard tooltips for the autocompletion list entries (full page title in the 'title' attribute, displayed as a tooltip on hover), which will make this bug less problematic if it's merged.
I confirmed this bug with IE6, IE8 and IE11. Fun.
Change 135309 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński: jquery.suggestions: Handle CSS ellipsis better for IE https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135309
The above patch fixes this bug for IE8 and IE11; it does not fix it for IE6, but who cares? I don't have other versions set up and I didn't test them. The patch should be backported to 1.23, same as the patch from bug 64093.
Change 135309 merged by jenkins-bot: jquery.suggestions: Handle CSS ellipsis better for IE https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135309
Change 136304 had a related patch set uploaded by MarkAHershberger: jquery.suggestions: Handle CSS ellipsis better for IE https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/136304
Change 136304 merged by jenkins-bot: jquery.suggestions: Handle CSS ellipsis better for IE https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/136304
Merged for 1.23. Closing.