217705 - long strings without spaces within tables expand set table width

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[J]

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

a long string will expand the table width if it does not fit within the
specified table width.  see steps to reproduce the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. write a simple html file with a simple table with <table
width="350"><tr><td>...</td></tr></table>
2. within the table cel type a long string that contains no spaces that will
exceed the width of the table (350)
Actual Results:  
loaded the page and noticed the text does not wrap to suit the table but it
expands the table to suit the text

Expected Results:  
wrapped text at the table width

Comment 1

[Kai de Leeuw]

This is the correct behaviour. If the content of a table cell is bigger than the
specified size for the cell, it should expand the table.

-> INVALID.

Comment 2

[Benedikt Kantus]

INVALID as per comment #1

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

Since the reporter expects that the text is wrapped inside the table, it's a
dupe of bug 95067. 

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95067 ***

Comment 5

[Kai de Leeuw]

why a duplicate? the reporter says nothing about hyphens?

he just expects the table to be the width specified instead of the width of
the nonwrapping text.

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

Kai, read bug 95067 and check its dupes

Comment 7

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

No, this is simply invalid.  We're never going to change the table algorithm,
where the WIDTH attribute means and has always meant 'min-width'.  We might
change the line-breaking algorithm to break around hyphens (in fact, we should).

Comment 8

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

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