Closed
Bug 22657
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
indenting <DD> without an enclosing <DL> is wrong
Categories
(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)
Tracking
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VERIFIED
WORKSFORME
Future
People
(Reporter: illich, Assigned: buster)
References
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Details
(Keywords: compat, testcase)
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(2 files)
If I make new paragraph with: <DD><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY> it's wrong. It should make a paragraph, which has first line intended (i'm not sure, if it is the right word) and the text aligned to both edges. Neither of those two effects appear.
The entire content of <DD> is indented in WindowsNT. I believe this is correct; I haven't found anything to the contrary. Could you please be more specific about the rendering in Linux? The text justification doesn't work--I'm marking this as "4.xP" and changing the summary to reflect the problem. I hope there is no problem with these changes?
Comment 3•25 years ago
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Updated•25 years ago
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OS: Linux → All
Summary: [4.xP] justified paragraphs → [4.xP] indenting <DD> without an enclosing <DL> is wrong
Whiteboard: [TESTCASE]
Comment 4•25 years ago
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Text justification problem is a duplicate of bug 588. I disagree with fantasai@escape.com; in my opinion <DD> should not be indented if it isn't enclosed in a <DL>. They should probably behave more like <LI> without <UL>/<OL>. IE5 and Nav4.x does not indent (the entire) <DD> when it's not within a <DL>. Changing summary to reflect <DD> indentation problem instead of justification.
I see your point, but should Mozilla encourage or discourage this practice? MSIE stopped indenting the whole paragraph only with version 4.0 -- 2.0 and 3.0 behave like Mozilla does now, as do Mosaic 3.0, Amaya 2.1, and Opera 3.6 (I just tested them all.) Is <DD> for indentation widely used? This is my first encounter. Certainly this interpretation is not widely supported. Maybe this issue should be taken up by the layout newsgroup as well...
This document is well formed. The problem is in layout. Reassigning to buster.
seems like there are two problems reported here, one having to do with text justification and one having to do with the interpretation of DD. The text justification is the more ijmportant problem so let's tackle that here. Adding [TEXT] M15.
Comment 8•25 years ago
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Bug 5119 dealt with a similar issue, but the HTML was coded in a slightly different manner. Do we want to go down this path further and implement this variation as well? Personally, I say there's bigger fish to fry than this one.
Comment 9•25 years ago
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Bulk moving [testcase] code to new testcase keyword. Sorry for the spam!
Keywords: testcase
Updated•25 years ago
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Summary: [4.xP] indenting <DD> without an enclosing <DL> is wrong → indenting <DD> without an enclosing <DL> is wrong
Whiteboard: [TESTCASE]
Comment 11•24 years ago
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Same problem on this page: http://aviation-safety.net/
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Comment 14•24 years ago
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Won't make beta2 if it stays on my list. Moving to M18.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M16 → M18
Comment 15•24 years ago
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Is DD without an enclosing DL even valid HTML? Low priority if bad HTML. How common is this practice? If invalid, recommend marking FUTURE unless extremely widespread on the web.
It's not valid HTML. However, it *may* be easy to fix in the quirks-mode html.css file (at the cost of a little performance, as is everything in any html.css file). It would probably be similar to the solution for bug 1049. I might have a chance to figure out the necessary rules sometime in the future.
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Comment 17•24 years ago
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redistributing bugs across future milestones, sorry for the spam
Target Milestone: M18 → M19
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Comment 18•24 years ago
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based on Eric's comments... This bug has been marked "future" because we have determined that it is not critical for netscape6.0. If you feel this is an error, or if it blocks your work in some way -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.
Target Milestone: M19 → Future
Comment 19•24 years ago
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I would strongly recommend marking this WONTFIX, not Future.
Comment 21•24 years ago
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Both problems, text justification and indentation of <DD>, seems to be fixed now, using build 2000-11-04-20 on Windows NT4 sp6. WORKSFORME.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Comment 22•24 years ago
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Seems to be working for me also, NT 11-04-09. VERIFIED.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Comment 23•24 years ago
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Text justification was fixed a while ago as bug 588. <DD> is handled by bug 5119; the fix you see for <DD> is a result of David Baron's patch for that bug. Can we mark this as a duplicate of 5119? WORKSFORME is not a very accurate resolution.
SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug 88132 for details.
Component: HTML Element → Layout
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