241891 - Table won't resize from pixels to percent of window. Just stays in pixels. See exact example on URL above that I made for you.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 244834

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Arnold Perey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.7b

The table and page were made entirely in Mozilla which I downloaded yesterday. 
The table won't change from 538 pixels a percent of the window.

<table style="width: 538px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 
auto;" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top;"><br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

see example online)


This is a serious error because it makes the composer completely unusable for 
anybody who want to make a page with relative sizes.

Because of this error in Netscape 6.1 composer, I had to abandon using 
Netscape and look for another WYSIWYG html editor a year or so ago.

I hope you can fix it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I left-clicked on the table to select it.
I right-clicked on the table for the drop-down menu.
I chose table cell properties.*
I clicked on the "table" tag.
I changed 538 pixels to 85%.
The table remained the same.
I went back into table properties and found the pixels hadn't changed to 
percent. 

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*("table cell properties" really should read "table / cell properties" because 
it looks like you are just selecting the cell)

Actual Results:  
<table style="width: 538px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 
auto;" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;"><br>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>


Expected Results:  
<table style="width: 85%; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 
auto;" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;"><br>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<br>


This is similar to a bug reported earlier, numbers 197859 and 235446 and 
others which come up when searching for: TABLE, RELATIVE, ABSOLUTE .... or 
searching for TABLE, PIXEL, PERCENT

To have a good composer available which also responds to CSS, as the Mozilla 
does, would be a great boon. Otherwise, it's on to Dreamweaver, I'm afraid.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to composer, but is this CSS editor?  Glazou, can you take a look?

Comment 2

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Taking. Component is ok. Not confirmed yet.

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

I'm not sure if this is what I'm seeing or not, but I think there are some
serious problems with the table dialog in recent versions of Composer (Macintosh
OSX 1.7.3 tested tonight).  I see the problem in this bug.  Confirming.

I also see problems where when I switch to HTML source and then back to Normal
and use the table properties dialog, I can't change the cell's background color
or other properties that I originally set.  Is there a serializer issue?  (Is
this really two bugs?)

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

brade, your problem is the same as bug 237268, bug 239476 and bug 265145.

I don't understand the reference to Netscape 6.1 though.

Comment 5

[Philip K. Warren]

This appears to be fixed with the checkin for Bug 244834.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 244834 ***