1359578 - console.table() compatibility and output differences between Firefox and Chrome

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P3)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Chrome and Firefox currently interpret the parameters passed into console.table() differently. Enough so that this example, which works in Firefox, fails in Chrome. Additionally, in Firefox, the version which is adjusted to work in Chrome has substantially different output when used on Firefox than the original form (the columns and rows are pivoted).

Here's the original example taken from MDN:

console.table(["apples", "oranges", "bananas"]);

This doesn't work on Chrome. Changing it to the following works on Chrome:

console.table([["apples", "oranges", "bananas"]]);

In the screenshots I will attach, you'll see the output of each version of this in each of the two browsers. console.table-firefox shows the output on Firefox while console.table-chrome shows the output in Chrome.

The questions: whose syntax is currently closer to what the spec suggests? Are the two implementations likely to come into alignment at some point in the relatively near future?


Blocking documentation bug 1357343.

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Attachment: Screenshot of the example's output in Chrome

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Attachment: Screenshot of the examples output in Firefox

In each of the screenshots, the top is the syntax:

console.table([["apples", "oranges", "bananas"]]);

Which works in both browsers.

The bottom is:

console.table(["apples", "oranges", "bananas"]);

This works only in Firefox.

Comment 3

[Brian Grinstead [:bgrins]]

> The questions: whose syntax is currently closer to what the spec suggests? Are the two implementations likely to come into alignment at some point in the relatively near future?

Here's a link to the spec discussion (which doesn't yet answer these questions): https://github.com/whatwg/console/issues/21.

And here's a list of known differences: https://github.com/whatwg/console/blob/master/NOTES.md#consoletable---printing-of-strings.

Comment 4

[chugylo]

A lot of time passed. Now Chrome 77 works the same way as Firefox.

Comment 5

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

Thanks for confirming, chugylo !