197766 - CSS text-align does not work for string values (eg. "." for decimal align) in table cells

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2212

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Aaron Nielsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

In Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 (CSS2), the text-align property can take a
string value, which denotes a point in the text at which text should be aligned:

 - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#column-alignment

Where Mozilla encounters a text-align property that has a string as its value,
it seems to default back to left-justifying that column.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Simply open the attached file in the Mozilla browser.

While the attached file is just HTML with a style element, it is also
reproducible with an XML file (and a separate stylesheet, of course).

Actual Results:  
The currency-type table cells are all left-justified, while all other table
cells are centered.


Expected Results:  
Currency values should have been aligned at their decimal point.


Interestingly, while Opera 5 for Linux also doesn't support text-align:<string>,
it falls back to the previous table cell style, which specifies that text should
be centered.  Mozilla simply ignores this and goes back to the default, which is
to left-justify those values.  Which is the correct workaround?

Comment 1

[Aaron Nielsen]

Attachment: A self-contained unfurnished HTML test case

This test case demonstrates the text-align:<string> property in a table and how
Mozilla seems to be applying it incorrectly.

Comment 2

[Chris Casciano]

the issue of support for text-align:char is bug 2212

bug 2212 comment 53 mentions the incorrect error/parsing behavior, while doing
so should take the form of another bug /I/'d rather the discussion/decision of
that be made there and not by morphing this bug.

so i'm reccomending this be marked a dupe of 2212, but i'm looking for a 2nd
opinion instead of doing it outright

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2212 ***