177164 - Unintended spaces under images are displayed by Mozilla (XHTML)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[Anders Schou Ryde]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020913 Debian/1.1-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020913 Debian/1.1-1

Mozilla insists on showing some spaces below images in '<td>'s even though they
are nowhere defined. 

This is a problem that only occurs in Mozilla, in both Netscape, Konqueror and
Internet Explorer you can workaround the problem by adding '<br />' after the
'<img>' tag.

Both XHTML(1.1) and CSS are validated.

PS. I hope this is the right category.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
Mozilla should simply display the layout without unintended spaces.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

It's actually normal. For an explanation, read
http://evolt.org/article/New_DOCTYPE_sniffing_in_upcoming_Mozilla_releases/1/32271/
and especially http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/img-table/ . It's
caused by an inconsistency in the CSS2 standard, and only Mozilla tries to
follow the standard to the letter. It's the reason why Mozilla implements an
"almost-standards-mode", which is the same as "standards mode" plus a workaround
for this problem. When CSS3 is finished, it might contain a fix for this.

Workaround : use a style="display:block" on every image. Or try to use the
"almost standards mode", for example by using XHTML-Transitional.

Comment 2

[Wesha]

Anders, you have PLENTY of spaces defined in your code. If you wanted to avoid
spacesm you would use <td><img .........></td>. Remember that newline character
ALSO is a whtespace character!

For that approach taken to the extreme, see the HTML code of http://wesha.lib.ru
That site contains no single unwanted space. 


v.

Comment 3

[Anders Schou Ryde]

Jo Hermans: Thank you for a very quick also very useful answer!

Wesha: Actually I thought that this matter was obsolete. It doesn't seem to make
a difference since XHTML, which suits me very good indeed.