127800 - rules attribute and cellspacing don't mix

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Ari]

Tables which have the rules attribute always seem to have cellspacing=0 even if
the actual cellspacing is specified as something else.

In the attached testcase, the top table has the rules=all attribute. The bottom
table does not. Both tables have cellspacing=2 and should look the same.

The HTML 4.01 spec say that the following two ways of specifying a table are
equivalent.
<TABLE border="2">
<TABLE border="2" frame="border" rules="all">
Thus, the presence of rules=all shouldn't have an effect on cellspacing.

Comment 1

[Ari]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[karnaze (gone)]

We don't support "rules" and the separate border model. "rules" forces collapsed 
borders and in that model there is no cell spacing. We will probably never 
support "rules" in the separate border model, because it doesn't make a lot of 
sense to have double rules that aren't even continuous. wontfix, sorry.

Comment 3

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

 Verified. Wont fix.