149098 - Inconsistent layout for CSS tables

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

I have a 5x5 table, defined to be 640px by 480px.
The first element in each row and col is defined
to be 20% of the table.  Occasionally, the table 
will be stretched one direction or the other.

build: 2002060408 win32

Comment 1

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

Attachment: Correct layout

Comment 2

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

Attachment: Incorrect layout

Comment 3

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

It appears I can force the incorrect layout by changing the
window's width.  Correct layout can then be restored by 
reloading the page.

Comment 4

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Re: Comment #3 From Quinn Yost (mythdraug) 2002-06-04 14:04
> It appears I can force the incorrect layout by changing the window's width.
> Correct layout can then be restored by reloading the page.

Confirming this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020609

Comment 5

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

-> HTMLTables

Comment 6

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

Attachment: Initial testcase

BZ: While this is not as minimal a testcase as you requested,
  I did find what is likely the cause of the layout inconsistancy.

table def:  640 x 480 px
First element of each row is defined to have height 20%
First element of each col is defined to have width 20%

Cell 2.2 is rowspan 3, colspan 3, and (here's the likely culprit)
 320 x 320 px.

Comment 7

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Umm... I can't reproduce this any longer with

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020619

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

How do I tell when the layout is wrong with the minimal testcase?

As a note, the original site now worksforme (build 2002-06-24-08) and I _did_
use to see the problem there...

Comment 9

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

While the testcase had layout problems, the original page
had identical issues.

However, I will agree that the layout of the page is
now consistent.

Marking WFM.   It wasn't so much that the page didn't
layout as I expected (my layout miscalculation), it 
was that it did so irregularly.