Closed
Bug 123856
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
DOCTYPE difference?
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: jeff.schrab, Assigned: asa)
Details
Table cells appear to put implicit line breaks at the end of a row DEPENDING ON
THE DOCTYPE. This implict <br> takes the size of the current font. For table
layouts that use ONLY images with NO spaces in between <td>...</td> pairs, I
don't see why this should happen. Is this the way it's SUPPOSE to happen?
Exhibit A:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<body>
<table border="1" width="760" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td><img src="spacer.gif" width="760" height="4" border="0" alt=""></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="spacer.gif" width="760" height="1" border="0" alt=""></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="spacer.gif" width="760" height="5" border="0" alt=""></td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Exhibit B:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
<html>
<body>
<table border="1" width="760" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td><img src="spacer.gif" width="760" height="4" border="0" alt=""></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="spacer.gif" width="760" height="1" border="0" alt=""></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="spacer.gif" width="760" height="5" border="0" alt=""></td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
"A" and "B" are VERY different as you can see. BBEdit on Mac kicks out "Type B"
default DOCTYPE's typically and HomeSite on Windows does "Type A". What's the
explaination? A bug or a feature?
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Comment 1•23 years ago
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This *might* be related to 121960
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Comment 2•23 years ago
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For this problem:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/loose.dtd">
WORKS as expected!
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
DOESN'T!!! Why? Bug or feature?
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Comment 3•23 years ago
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This is a standards-compliance feature not a bug. The reason is that Mozilla gos from "quirk" (compatibility) to standards mode depending on the DOCTYPE (if it has an URL in it etc.) See this page: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/doctypes.html In the latest nightly builds (200202) you can check which mode Mozilla uses by looking View->Page Info (ctrl+i). On the problem with the additional line break in your tables, it is correlated to exactly the same issue, see e.g.: http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/img-table/ Someone with the necessary rights to do it should close this bug (I can't)...
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Comment 4•23 years ago
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You need the following style:
td > img { display: block }
If you want to know why we have the behavior we do, read the comments in bug 22274
but note that our behavior is indeed correct.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22274 ***Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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