196889 - regress: colgroup / col has no support at all

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 4510

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Robert Ames]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; EDS)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030311

Mozilla is out of compliance with HTML4.01 <COLGROUP> / <COL> examples given in 
w3.org spec.  I've done research on previous bugs which have claimed to close 
this (#4510, #68998, #91034 ?), but in today's (March 11, 2003) nightly binary, 
there is absolutely no way to tell (visually) that COLGROUP / COL is even being 
supported.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. No support for <COLGROUP ALIGN="center">
2. No support for <COL STYLE="font-face: sans-serif">
3. No support for <COLGROUP STYLE="background: pink"> (I'm not really expecting 
this one, but it remains an issue).

Actual Results:  
Running against the W3C example table at then end of the HTML4.01 table spec 
indicates that mozilla's latest nightly is totally out of compliance with 
expected behaviour.

Expected Results:  
Render it correctly?  ;^)

See also: http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/testcases/css/columnstyle.html for a 
mozilla testcase showing this breakage.

Fix this, please!  It's embarrasing that it doesn't work.  Not quite Sev: Major 
because I'm guessing that COLGROUP is not a widely used attribute, but I want 
to use it for Neat Dynamic Table / JS effects, and it would really irritate me 
if it didn't work in Mozilla.

See also: http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/testcases/css/columnstyle.html for a 
mozilla testcase showing this breakage.

Comment 1

[Bernd]

1) is bug 915
2) there is no column style inheritance in CSS2 
3) bug 4510
to verify that cols and colgroup work use width for cols 

<col width="1*">
<col width="2*">
<col width="3*">

should work

 

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Marking duplicate of one of the two bugs this duplicates (picked one randomly).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4510 ***