228781 - Table gets distorted if nested in two or more divs with "position:absolute"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201897

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Marcus von Cube]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031017
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031017

Mozilla does not render the table cell widths correctly, if the table is located
in two or more nested divs with style="position:absolute" (See URL obove). If I
change one or both divs to "position:relative", everything works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.mvcsys.de/test/mozilla-bug.html
2. view the results


Actual Results:  
Table cells do not align properly

Expected Results:  
Table cells should align properly

Bug seems to be older (in all 1.x versions)

Comment 1

[Bernd]

a dupe of bug 97777 ?

Comment 2

[Marcus von Cube]

Doesn't seem to be a dupe of bug 97777, since this affects the behaviour of the
divs, not of the contained table. In our case the table cell widths aren't
calculated properly so that the cells are no longer properly aligned: the rows
seem to be independent from each other.

Comment 3

[Marcus von Cube]

I just added two screenshots and a third case to the example page (IE6 and
Mozilla 1.5 under Windows). (I had to add another level of DIVs to seperate the
examples!)

A soon as I add a width to the outer of the positioned DIVs, everything seems to
work as expected! The problem seems to have to do with computing the width of
the outermost surrounding div. (Just a guess).

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201897 ***

Comment 5

[Marcus von Cube]

Bug is still present in Mozilla 1.6 (see URL above)

Comment 6

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

So?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201897 ***