126772 - browser doesn't use max height when height should be 100%

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Andreas Meinl]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020415

Hi!

I want to use a table to center some text on a frame, for example:

<table width="100%" height="100%">
 <tr>
  <td align="center" valign="bottom">
   TEST-TEXT
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>

Why doesn't Mozilla center this text like all other browsers?
(See http://www.andreasmeinl.de/intern/logo.html for example.)

Thank you,

Andreas Meinl

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  The text isn't centered on the frame.

Expected Results:  The text should be centered on the frame, because 
height="100%".

For example:

<table width="100%" height="100%">
 <tr>
  <td align="center" valign="bottom">
   TEST-TEXT
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>

Comment 1

[Dimitrios]

HEIGHT attribute inside <table> is not allowed in HTML4.01 standard. Mozilla
doesn't support it. Also see my comments on bug 125499. Remove this attribute
from your code and use other techniques (css par example) to achieve the layout
you want. E.g. this one:
<table width="100%" style="height:100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="bottom">TEST-TEXT</td>
</tr>
</table>
Not sure if the above example is absolutely valid but it seems to work in Mozilla.
Marking this bug as INVALID.