1229401 - p and h1..h6 align should not "align descendants"

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Per the second code block in <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/rendering.html#tables-2>.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: tests, to be compared between browsers

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

So Gecko and IE11 both do align descendants, but Chrome 45 does not (but it does do text-align).  I don't think that makes it obvious which way the spec should go.

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Probably ok to switch the behavior here, though, given that it's possible (although unlikely) that some mobile-oriented content might depend on the other behavior.

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This actually also applies to the p element.

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: tests, to be compared between browsers

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

... or not, because even though the spec doesn't say to align descendants for p, Chrome does so.

Comment 7

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This bug was also presumably spun off of bug 196292 comment 27,which would have been nice to say when filing so that I wouldn't have to spend time searching for it.

Comment 8

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Filed https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/372 ; we shouldn't do anything here until that resolves.