213870 - Composer Tables are not displayed correctly in Internet explorer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 192217

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[andreas sumerauer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

With preferences set to "use css styles..." composer often adds an
style="text-align: left" to the table properties. IE interprets this as equal to
align="left" which means that centered tables are not aligned correctly. 
Is it really necessary to always add default settings ? Every browser will align
to the left if nothing different is specified. The same with "margin-left:auto;
and "margin-right:auto" styles. I wuld rather not have them but there is no way
to switch the automatic insertion of redundant styles off.
These can BTW come in conflict with HTML-elements because Composer does not seem
 to check the consistency/redundancy of css styles and html elements within a
tag. finding an error (which is often introduced through the automativc
insertion of redundant styles) can get very difficult.

thanks for listening

Please note: Yes, I am well aware that this is no IE Bug tracker. I really do
not know who is interpreting the text-align style corrrectly: mozilla or ie.
I am using mozilla as my main web editor and I have to make sure that my pages
are displayed satisfactorily by all browsers. Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a table 
2. open the advanced properteis dialog, add an "align=left" element. then go to
the inline styles tab and remove the "text-align:left" style
3. close dialog and open it again. result: the unwanted text-align style is back
and now two redundant margin-left and margin-right styles are added on top.

Actual Results:  
IE explorer displays the table not centered but aligned to the left.
 

Expected Results:  
I would have liked to see that the redundant styles are left away. especially
after I removed them manually.

I think this is a major bug because it prevents me from creating cross braowser
compatible web pages using mozills composer (which is otherwise my preferred tool).

Comment 1

[andreas sumerauer]

Sorry, there is a typo in the steps to reproduce the bug:

instead of:
2. open the advanced properteis dialog, add an "align=left" element. then go to
the inline styles tab and remove the "text-align:left" style

it should be:

2. open the advanced properteis dialog, add an "ALIGN=CENTER" element. then go to
the inline styles tab and remove the "text-align:left" style

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

No difficulties removing the style attirbute and adding the html attribute from
the html source edit view. When making the change from the table advanced edit
dialog, my changes weren't saved correcly as reported above. Tested Mozilla
20040324 on winXP. 

I believe that this is a duplicate of bug 192217

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 192217 ***