50817 - Height=100% in a table sets height to window size, not it's parent elements height.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Mike M.]

Open a page with the following HTML:

<table height=100% border=1>
<tr>
 <TD bgcolor=gray valign=top height=100% >
    <TABLE height="100%">
      <tr height=100% valign=top>
        <td height=100% bgcolor=green>Height should length of entire page, not
window

screen</td>
      </tr>
     </TABLE>
  </TD>
  <td height=2000>a</td>
</tr>
</table>

Result:

The height of the green cell should extend all the way to bottom of the content.
 Instead, it seems to be set to height of the browser window

Comment 1

[Chris Petersen]

Table issue. Reassigning QA owner to chrisd.

Comment 2

[buster]

dubious test case, doesn't work at all in Nav4.  It's possible we're doing the
right thing here.

Comment 3

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

Well, the 'height' attribute should actually be ignored, since 'table' doesn't 
*have* a 'height' attribute (though you can use CSS to get a similar effect).

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Marking INVALID - dodgy HTML.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Netscape's standard compliance QA team reorganised itself once again, so taking 
remaining non-tables style bugs. Sorry about the spam. I tried to get this done 
directly at the database level, but apparently that is "not easy because of the 
shadow db", "plus it screws up the audit trail", so no can do...