122099 - support for COL tag and it's attributes

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Adam Hauner]

Mozilla browser doesn's support well HTML4 tag <COL> and it's attributes a styles. 

Expected rendering of small test file:
1. cells A, D and G should contain red text in sans-serif font
   (<COL CLASS="foo">)
2. content of cells A, D and G should be aligned to right
   (<COL ALIGN=RIGHT>)
3. cells B, E and H should contain blue text in sans-serif font
   (<COL STYLE="font-family:sans-serif;color:#0000FF">)
4. content of cells B, E and H should be vertically aligned to top
   (<COL VALIGN=TOP>)
5. cells C, F and I should have 15px padding on left side

Actual:
Nothing!

Notes: 
* Test will be rendered in Strict standards compliance mode. 
* MSIE 5.5 and 6.0 render test fine -> IE parity
(20020125/WinNT4)

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

Attachment: Small table test

Comment 2

[Bernd]

I guess this is a dupe - bug 915

Comment 3

[Adam Hauner]

Oops, it could be, but only for ALIGN and VALIGN (2. and 4.). Attributes CLASS
and STYLE aren't covered by bug 915.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Invalid.  See the CSS2 spec, http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#q4

Basically, the only styles applied to COL tags that can affect the way cells
look are border, background, width, and visibility.

Align and valign should be special-cased as attributes (bug 915) and dropped as
styles (as they are now).

Comment 5

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

 Verified Invalid.