46265 - bordercolor not supported in table tag

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Kevin Ar18]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
BuildID:    2000061311

In the main menue of this site, it used the bordercolor="000000" in the table 
tag to make the border for the table black.  Mozilla does not support/display 
the border color in the tables.
Here's a more direct URL to the example:
http://op.virtualave.net/Main.shtml

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a table in a html page
2. put the bordercolor="#000000" tag in the table tag like so:
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000">

Actual Results:  Mozilla displays the table border in the standard grey color.  
It does not diplay it in black or whatever color is specified by bordercolor.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should diplay the table border in the color 
specified by border color.  See how Internet Explorer does it (with varying 
border widths) as an example

Comment 1

[Peter 'Rufus' Nelson]

INVALIDating: there is no bordercolor attribute.  If you look through:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html nowhere will you find a
bordercolor.  Just because 'IE does it' doesn't mean (usually means the opposite
;) that we should.

Comment 2

[Kevin Ar18]

Granted, I did not know if it was part of the W3C specifications.  But, I still 
consider it worthy of <i>some</i> consideration.  Just because it's not on W3C 
doesn't mean it does not have to be supported (especially since this is a 
feature included in both certain html editors and IE alike).

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Were standards complient. Marking as verified.

Comment 4

[Kevin Ar18]

I understand the lack of it being in WC3, but there is no other alternative to 
bordercolor is there?
If so, it leaves an area missing.

Comment 5

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

*** Bug 111697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** Bug 205370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** Bug 241025 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 262646 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 268953 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 273921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[bugzillaspambox]

actually it is (!) an bug in the mozilla engine. The mozilla engine does support
"bordercolor". The point it, the border needs to be collapsed else you won't see
the correct color because of the bug.

Try this for example:
<table border=1 bordercolor=red style="border-collapse:collapse">

and you will see that the border is red. Try this:
<table border=1 bordercolor=red>

and you will see a orange border on the top and left and a dark red border on
the bottom and right. There will also be a second, grey border inside the dark
red/orange border.

And this is definitly not what it should be.

And btw: bordercolor is used very often by webmasters because it is shorter than
the way with the style (style="border-color:#000000"). That's ANOTHER point why
this BUG shouldn't be handled like "not W3 - so never mind"

Comment 12

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 274389 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 292457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***