241450 - {inc} Cell in nested table with percentage width specified has a different width on reload

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Kevin Pontzloff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040422
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040422

In the page at http://www1.wowway.com/wowstory.asp?id=1001 the style sheet menu
on the left overlaps the main body on the right.  I tried it in Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6.0 and Opera 7.5, and the menu fits itself within bounds on
the left without interfering with the text on the right.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Simply go to the url http://www1.wowway.com/wowstory.asp?id=1001  (no special
setup required)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The page comes up incorrectly.  Menu covers part of the text of the webpage

Expected Results:  
The menu should have appeared narrower staying within its defined bounds on the
left column and the main body on the right column would display all of the text
un-interfered with by the menu

I used the default theme of mozilla, and no configuration changes were made
beyond the defaults.  No extensions were added.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Either a tables bug (since that table is being wider than the width is set to),
or evang.  I'm guessing the former, since I see this even with small fonts set.

That said, a minimal testcase is what's needed here.

Comment 2

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 3

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Attachment: testcase

That wasn't supposed to be XML...

Comment 4

[Peter Schaefer]

I see stuff like this too, and it often shows errant behavior, like disappearing
on a reload. It looks to me like in:

..
<table id="1">
..
<tr>
<td colspan="8"><table id="2" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
width="100%"><tr>
..

the 100% in table #2 at some point during loading refers to the width of table
#1, not to the table cell, and that this is corrected only sometimes at the end
of loading the page, especially when loading takes long due to being produced by
a script 

Comment 5

[Steve England [:stevee]]

I see no difference in the testcase rendering between:
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/2006120606 Minefield/3.0a (pre-reflow branch)
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/2006120804 Minefield/3.0a1 (post-reflow branch)

In both cases, the green area does not change size when doing a reload or shift-reload

Comment 6

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Yes, seems to work now on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061209 Minefield/3.0a1.