122441 - Table alignment off

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P2)

Description

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Notice that the left column on this page in a recent build shortens the table. 
Expected result is that the left column is larger.  View page in IE or NN 4.x to
see what it should look like.

Not sure if this is bad coding or problem with table layout.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

tables

Comment 2

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Setting component to HTMLTables

Comment 3

[Waheed Islam]

right, i found the cause.
this might be a dup since it will be a common thing on sites.

yahoo did in fact get the html wrong.

note the space between the search box and button.

that space is written as &nsbp;, if it was actually a space like, ' ', then
internet explorer would also insert a break and cause the entire left section to
become smaller.
mozilla handles it correctly, it treats   as a space.

yahoo didn't define the width of that left column, but did define the right
(main) section to be 100%.

thus, the size of the left section depends entirely upon that   char.

testcase...

Comment 4

[Waheed Islam]

Attachment: testcase with &nsbp; which won't cause a line break with ie

Comment 5

[Waheed Islam]

Attachment:   replaced with an actual ' ' [space]

Comment 6

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

 Setting the priority to p2 since this bug has a higher visibility.

Comment 7

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

This also affects the What's New page on Yahoo and I'm sure several more.

Comment 8

[Michael Gabriel]

WFM or im looking at the wron thing, also the examples seem to produce the same
output for me 2002061408 trunk on win2k

Comment 9

[Waheed Islam]

yea, they would both look the same under moz. you will notice the difference in
IE. thus the situation here is, are we going to simulate IE?

easier to understand example: -

Text&nbsp;Text2  <-- moz: 'Text2' will break on to the next line.
                      ie: 'Text2' will stay on the same line.

Text Text2       <-- moz: 'Text2' will break on to the next line.
                      ie: 'Text2' will break on to the next line.

(Only happens in a table, when the above is in a column next to a column set as
100% width (confused? read the source of the testcases to understand)).

So perhaps the bug is actually in IE, and we do it correctly?

taxes.yahoo.com seems to have been fixed... changing URL.

Comment 10

[Ian Neal]

Is this still happening? If not please resolve as WORKSFORME otherwise please
state buildif of a recent build it has failed on. Seems to WFM using buildID
2002080508 on Win2KSP2

Comment 11

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

WFM

Comment 12

[Waheed Islam]

this is still happening.
although it's not as noticeable (on the taxes website) since the html code has
changed.

changing back url.

verifying, since I believe we do it correctly, IE got it wrong.
(does w3c have a say on this?)