84986 - TABLE BGCOLOR not correctly displaying within cellpadding/spacing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 4510

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Josh Varner]

Follow-up on earlier bug not well researched (sorry!).  Mozilla 0.9.1 Build ID: 
2001060703 doesn't appear to correctly show the BGCOLOR of a table within the 
CELLSPACING within a TABLE.  The spacing between cells is still within the 
scope of the table, thus should render with the TABLE's BGCOLOR. The URL listed 
should render as a TABLE with multiple-colored cells with a black border and 
one black cell (black being the BGCOLOR of the TABLE itself).  Mozilla does 
render the black cell, but does not render the spacing with the proper color.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please try adding an HTML 4.01 strict doctype to the page. Does that help?  I 
bet you're seeing the effects of quirks mode here.

Comment 2

[Josh Varner]

I've updated the test page to include a strict html 4.01 doctype. That helped 
render the BGCOLOR on some of the TD elements, but not on the COLSPANned TD in 
the middle. Its BGCOLOR is taking over the edges of the table itself, and the 
BGCOLOR appears improperly rendered.

Comment 3

[Skewer]

Confirming. Behavior is as described in 2001062004 Win98.

Comment 4

[Bernd]

Reporter could you please attach the testcase to the bug, the URL does not work.

Comment 5

[Josh Varner]

Attachment: This file shows a table that demonstrates the BGCOLOR attribute issue described in bug 84986.

Comment 6

[Josh Varner]

Attachment: This file demonstrates the BGCOLOR attribute issue (with the strict doctype, as requested).

Comment 7

[Bernd]

The background color should not any longer spill out of the table, bug 86220.
The question is whether the row coloring should color the tablespacing. See bug
46268 for some further discussion and the following posts+ followups:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Jul/0083.html 

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2001Jun/0041.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2001Jun/0069.html
+ followups

bug 4510 is also quite related. So I guess this bug is a dupe

Comment 8

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4510 ***