233476 - tables with height = 100% do not handle td valign correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 88035

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[kaaskonk]

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

The tag <td valign="middle"> should display vertically centered in any window 
size. It works when the table has an exact pixel size, but not when the table 
height is 100%. Rather than being vertically centered, it appears at the top 
of the page.

example:
<table align="center" border="0" height="100%">
	<td valign="middle" align="center">
		this phrase should be centered in the page
	</td>
</table>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.look at kaaskonk.com/tdvalignbug.html
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Actual Results:  
The web page displays with text at the top rather than vertically centered.

Expected Results:  
The page should display with the text vertically centered.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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

That's really old.  This has been fixed for a good while now.

In any case, the problem is not the valign but the fact that the 100% was
ignored and the table was not the height of the page (as putting borders on it
would show).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88035 ***