226914 - <table> 'align' attribute removed when closing Table Properties dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 225937

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030

Composer always removes the "align" key word by tables.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a table
2.insert the align="center" 
<table align="center" style="text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right:
auto; width: 100%;" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
3.edit the table properties with table properties dialog
4.click OK and show the source code
Actual Results:  
Composer removes the "align" key.
<table style="text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 0px; width:
100%;" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">

Expected Results:  
Composer should keep the "align" key.
<table align="center" style="text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right:
auto; width: 100%;" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">

Comment 1

[Malcolm Rowe]

Confirmed.

We can either use CSS or HTML to position the table ('align=' or 'margin-left:
auto' [etc], respectively). In this case, it appears that the Table Properties
dialog uses one or the other to determine the 'Table Alignment', and when the
dialog is closed, the redundant part (in this case, the HTML align attribute) is
removed.

Now, <TABLE align=...> is deprecated per W3C in favour of CSS styling, so we may
not want to fix this (or alternatively, we may be unable to fix this). I don't
know enough about Composer though.

Comment 2

[Malcolm Rowe]

Clarifying summary.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225937 ***