2079 - display busted -- "bad content in table"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 1699

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P2)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This page has *major* display problems.  It looks like a nested tables problem,
although it could be a parser issue.

It was reported in mozilla-layout:

>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: possible layout bug
>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:53:04 GMT
>Resent-From: [e-mail]
>
>Win 95 NGLayout
>Build downloaded on Dec 28
>
>NGLayout doesn't seem to properly render the page below, while Communicator
>4.5 does it properly.
>
>http://www.mozilla.org/stevecase.html
>
>Cheers

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

(note: modified summary line)

This is a dup of #1699 -- aka 'bad content in table' -- there are <P>s in
between the <TR>s, and they close out the table wrongly.

I have posted a "fixed" version of stevecase.html at

   http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~buslib/stevecase

with a 'diff -c' of how to workaround the problem.

However, (I note), in the comments of #1699, bug #1699 has been marked as a
duplicate of #1474:

This is *not* correct -- look at the test case earlier in the bug report of
#1474 -- it is an instance of the <table width="nn%"> bug -- (n.b. there are a
lot of duplicates of this bug in the db)

The 'bad content in table' and 'table width="nn%"' are *distinct* (although, by
their nature, they often travel together in pages with deeply nested tables,
and can be confused with each other).

The 'dup' of 1699-1474 should be backed-out of the database.

Cheers .. John


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1699 ***

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Verified duplicate and fixed.