239882 - When creating a new collumn in a table, the header <th> is not taken into account and a <td> is used instead

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193713

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Gerke Kok]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040406
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040406

When creating a new column in a table, the header <th> is not taken into account
and a <td> is used instead.
When I have this in HTML:
<table width="80%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th><br>
</th>
<th><br>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><br>
</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
And I add a column in the middle, I get this:
<table width="80%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th><br>
</th>
<td><br>
</td>
<th><br>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><br>
</td>
<td><br>
</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I would have expected Mozilla to pick up the fact that I use th in the first
row... Or did I miss something? Do I need to enclose <th> elements with some
other tag?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bruce Davidson]

This functionality is already requested under bug 193713 (though you have to get
to comment 5 to work that out!). Resolving as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193713 ***

Comment 2

[Gerke Kok]

Sorry, that is probably why I could not find it. Thanks for finding it for me!