203871 - HTM view of Excel spreadsheet not correct

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[S. Iskowitz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When viewing and HTML page taht seems have been converted from an excel
spreadsheet. the view is not correct. The fonts are show going across the
vertical lines of the page.  I have seem the original excel version and it looks
fine.
I have also looked at this in Internet Exp;lorer V6 and it also looks fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.going  to the web address http://jp1.filebug.com/remchart.htm
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Same results 

Expected Results:  
 view as correct rendition as is shown in IE V6.0

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The HTML output uses "table-layout: fixed", which explicitly means that contents
may overlap vertical lines if there is not enough space for them.

IE has no support for "table-layout: fixed", so it just lays it out like a
normal table which does not allow such overlaps.