149913 - Setting display=none and then display = inline on a 100% wide table makes it forget the width.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50626

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P4)

Description

[Matias Larsson]

I tried this on Mac OS X (Mozilla 1.0 Final + NS 7.0PR1) and W2000 (NS 
7.0PR1) and get the same results (it's probably affecting other flavors too;

Setting display=none on a 100% wide table and then display=inline will 
make the table forget that it was 100% wide. Quite annoying indeed if yor 
application depends on it.

Comment 1

[Matias Larsson]

Attachment: Testcase for the senile table bug

Comment 2

[Richard Brodie]

Changing the display property of a table to anything other than 'table' 
or 'none' is likely to do odd things. User agents may or may not draw an HTML 
TABLE as a table if you change this property. Toggling the display property 
between 'none' and 'table' works fine.

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#q2 and the discussion on the 
similar bug 114867 .

Comment 3

[Matias Larsson]

OK, I hadn't heard of display=table, better brush up on my CSS2 skills 
then... :) Thanks!

There is also a political perspective to this, since many sites (developed 
for IE)  use display=none and display=block/inline to switch tables on and 
off, but I'll leave that decision to somebody else.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

"width" does not apply to things with display:inline per CSS, so I'm afraid this
bug is invalid.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50626 ***