204606 - table rowspan breaks display block height

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Jukka Kangas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

In the page http://www.purske.fi/test/index.html, when mouse is over Item 1 and 
Item 9, the whole cell should change color to white. Now only the top part of 
the cell changes. Item 17 which is done with colspan, works ok.

Quick example:

<style>
td {
   width: 100px;
   height: 100px;
}
a {
   display: block;
   width: 100%;
   height: 100%;
}
a:hover {
   background-color: white;
}
</style>
...
<td rowspan="2"><a href="xx">Item xx</a></td>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Sterling Bates]

Attachment: Here's a testcase to demonstrate this.

It's also a problem in Win32 build 20030414.

Comment 2

[Madhur Bhatia]

seeing on linux too.

Comment 3

[Bernd]

Attachment: testcase without a rowspan

I believe its not the rowspan but it is the style height that is fixed on the cell, the original testcase has  100px tall cells and  due to the rowspan the height spec can not be honored on the rowspan. But for the height computation the original height spec should be used.

Comment 4

[Bernd]

whe behave like IE8 and opera. Webkit computes the 90% from the computed size of the cell instead of the specified cell height

Comment 5

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

I just came across this bug, here is a simple test test online:
http://odvarko.com/tests/webcompat/table-cell-size/

Chrome and Safari work the same, Firefox works differently