235025 - fails to render table cell background and other styles correctly, even though DOM reports style information as correct

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Rik Hepworth]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

On the url specified the left hand nav column is styled with a border and
reversed out text using a <div> style. The central table of major links has a
coloured background on each of the cells. Neither of these render correctly.
This was fine in Moz 1.1, 1.2 but IIRC it broke in Moz 1.3. We believed it to be
our code rather than the browser, hence the delay in logging the fault. However,
after a great deal of checking we can find no fault with the code. This has been
verified by others on the css-discuss list. The layout uses nested tables and
renders fine in IE WIN 5,5.5,6 IE Mac and Opera (various versions) but fails on
all Moz 1.3 and above browsers on all platforms.
For ref, the stylesheet is http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/_private/lssweb2.css

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. View the page in IE. View the page in Mozilla or Firefox. The difference is
clearly visible.
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Actual Results:  
Various elements fail to render correctly even though the DOM Inspector reports
the computed CSS styles to be correct as per the stylesheet.

Expected Results:  
Central table cells should have blue-grey background. Left hand nav should have
claret 1px border and reversed-out white on claret header para.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The problem is the relatively positioned cell.... There are all sorts of
painting issues with such.

Comment 2

[Bernd]

Boris, I nail them down one by one, it is always the view that is not in sync.
Rik could you please produce a minimized testcase that demonstrates the problem.

Comment 3

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Worksforme on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a)
Gecko/20040507 Firefox/0.8.0+.

Comment 4

[Bernd]

the page changed on may 4th, so no testcase and the url doesnt show the problem
anymore ... > wfm, Rik can you still reproduce the problem?

Comment 5

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Marking works for me. If you can reproduce, reopen.