40568 - TD elements don't inherit "font-size" from TABLE in strict mode (with ENABLE_STRICT=true)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[Taras Tielkes]

Using a strict Doctype (see attachment) that I believe to be correct, it seems 
child TDs dont inherit "font-size" from their parent TABLEs.

Behaviour is seen in normal HTML as well as DOM-constructed HTML.

This is a repost of an earlier bug (40489) that had in invalid doctype.

Comment 1

[Taras Tielkes]

Attachment: HTML with one static table and one dynamic (DOM1) table, both fail to inherit font-size from TABLE to TD

Comment 2

[Taras Tielkes]

This document is displayed correctly in Mozilla.

The problem seems to be caused by "ENABLE_STRICT=true" setting on my machine. 
Running mozilla without this env. setting fixes the style.

Adding [e-mail] for StrictDTD.

Comment 3

[Taras Tielkes]

Btw, I'm using ENABLE_STRICT=true because it fixes some other bugs that were a 
real pain in my project. One of them is this one:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40183

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Confirmed. When ENABLE_STRICT is set to true, we stop inheriting the font-size
from the TABLE element to the TD element, just like I would expect to happen
in Quirks mode.

Comment 5

[Marc Attinasi]

I spoke with Rick G. and there is a bug in the strict DTD that is causing it to 
keep the browser in QuirkMode (!) He has fixed it but it is not checked-in. You 
can get around this in Viewer by selecting the menu item Style | Compatibility 
Mode | Standard and reloading the document. That will force standard mode, 
regardless of the doctype. In this case Mozilla renders it fine. 

It looks like this fix to the strict DTD was checked-in on the 24th of May 
(yesterday) so it should work in the next nightly-build... Can you check it out 
once the build is available?

Taking this bug over to track it.

Comment 6

[Taras Tielkes]

I just checked the testcase attachment using a 25/5 nightly build. It works.
(BuildID : 20000-52508)

The page renders correctly with "ENABLE_STRICT=true"
The page also renders correctly without "ENABLE_STRICT=true"

Comment 7

[Marc Attinasi]

Thanks Taras. I'll go ahead and close it then!

Comment 8

[Christine Hoffman]

Per reporter comments, verified fixed.