201632 - increasing colspan by 1 causes a colspan of "4" being treated like 1?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187550

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Ralf Hauser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030406
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030406

I guess the example is self explanatory

The file validates as proper xhtml with w3c

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a duplicate (note that the rendering for that markup is actually
undetermined by the specifications, so our rendering is in fact "correct"  ;)

Comment 2

[Ralf Hauser]

Thx, which other bug would be the corresponding dup?

Fine, it appears that it is "correct", but it appears that there might be other,
different ways to be "correct" that are even more intuitive (such as
"incrementing the colspan with 1 would make the cell content have a line break
further to the right {if at all}")?

Comment 3

[HARUNAGA Hirotoshi]

This is the same as Bug 187550.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187550 ***