164270 - a large blank area appears on page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 145405

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Wenqing Jiang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020822
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020822

go to the url provided and you'll see a large blank area on the page, with
the content pushed down below the blank.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the url
2.look at the page
3.compare what's shown in IE with the same URL

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM, 2002-08-23-08 trunk Linux.

Comment 2

[Ian Neal]

I see this using BuildID 2002082008 on WinXP, confirming

Comment 3

[Sam J. Fleet]

Confirm on Moz Buid ID# 2002-08-23-04.  I think I know what the problem is. 
Will analyze hte code after I get back from lunch.  This is a possible duplicate
in relation to the "rowspan" attribute in the table.  Will analyze the code to
make sure first.

Comment 4

[Sam J. Fleet]

<-- My Explanation -->
It's a bad scripting on the webmaster's part.  It's also related to the
"rowspan" attribute of the table.  The webmaster also enclosed too many tables,
in one case, yellow tables (Table #1, #2, #3) within one "<td>" tags.  I colored
it for our convience.  I left intact the "align" attribute, "width" attriubte
and "height" attriubute of the table properties to mirror it to the real webpage
we saw.

<-- Technicial Explaination -->
The reason it look wrong is because there were too many data in either the Table
#5 or Table #6 that it cause this table to expand longer than the height of
"1000" on the other column where Table #1, #2, #3 and #4 reside, so it cause us
to see that it looked wrong.

<!-- Conclusion -->
Mozilla and Internet Explorer performed correctly except one thing.  Internet
Explorer somehow doesn't expand one of the column/row box at the very top. 
Mozilla does expand that box somehow.  This is also a duplicate of bug #145405.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145405 ***

Comment 5

[Sam J. Fleet]

Attaching testcase #1 and #2.  Testcase #1 showed the bug and Testcase #2 showed
what the bug would look like if there isn't excessive data in one table that
wouldn't affect the rowspan attribute.

Comment 6

[Sam J. Fleet]

Attachment: testcase with the bug that are noticable

Comment 7

[Sam J. Fleet]

Attachment: testcase #2 that doesn't have excessive data to affect rowspan