21003 - Demo 4 table 5 (tbody) does not display correctly since M10

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

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

Description

[basic]

I don't know who is in charge of this but here goes.
Demo 4 table 5 (tbody) does not display correctly since M10.

The problem is because of this offending part:

<thead>
<tr><td colspan=2 style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold">HEADER
</thead>

Note that <tr> does not have a corresponding </tr>

Another thing is that when that is fixed, <tfoot> appears as part of <tbody>.
It's cause by <tfoot> being declared after <tbody>

<tbody ... >
.
.
.
</tbody>

<tfoot>
<tr><td colspan=2 style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold">FOOTER
</tfoot>

when I change it to

<tfoot>
<tr><td colspan=2 style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold">FOOTER
</tfoot>

<tbody ... >
.
.
.
</tbody>

it works.
I'm not sure if the html document in question or Mozilla is at fault as I'm not
a HTML guru. ;-)

Comment 1

[basic]

I forgot to add that the above mentioned <tfoot>
<tfoot>
<tr><td colspan=2 style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold">FOOTER
</tfoot>

also has a missing </tr>
without it Mozilla will not display <tbody> correctly

Comment 2

[basic]

Is this related to the fix for bug 3737 ?
bug3737:Problem with rendering tables; <TBODY> inside TR

Comment 3

[basic]

sorry I made a mistake in my initial report:
what I meant was it was missing </td></tr>
same with my second comment.

I also forgot to mentioned that the <tfoot> problem was tested with m10
with the nightly build 1999120608 it seems to work
however with the nightly build when <tfoot> is declared before <tbody> it is
displayed over <tbody>

Comment 4

[basic]

Attachment: testcase: This works with the nightly build 1999120608

Comment 5

[basic]

Attachment: testcase: this causes build1999120608 to display "FOOTER" over <tbody>

Comment 6

[basic]

gfx-scrollbar have to be turned off to test for this bug due to bug #21004

Comment 7

[troy]

The part of the bug that says the footer doesn't display properly if <tfoot> is
declared after <tbody> is invalid. Section 11.2.3 HTML4 spec says:

"TFOOT must appear before TBODY within a TABLE definition so that user agents
can render the foot before receiving all of the (potentially numerous) rows
of data."

Comment 8

[basic]

As of build 1999121008 win32:
Mozilla displays
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=3301
(where tfoot is declared after tbody)
with a scrollbar

Mozilla displays
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=3301
(where tfoot is declared before tbody)
with a scroll bar but tfoot appears on the first line of tbody and below tbody
at the same time.And then crashes when I click it.

Note: gfx scrollbars work for tbody as of build 1999121008 win32

Comment 9

[basic]

Attachment: testcase: Mozilla does not display scrollbar. tfoot is displayed before tbody.

Comment 10

[basic]

>The part of the bug that says the footer doesn't display properly if <tfoot> is
>declared after <tbody> is invalid.

does this mean that demo 4 needs to be fixed?

Comment 11

[basic]

Ok, this mess is my fault. Should have read the HTML 4 Rec more carefully
before I filed a bug. And the other aspects of this bug is also invalid, as it
has been fixed since M11. I thought I was still seeing the same bug, when
actually it was the xpscrollbar causing the table to be out of focus.

Marking as invalid

Comment 12

[Christine Hoffman]

Verifying invalid per reporter's comments