261490 - Padding not honored on floated table with border-collapse:collapse

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Jeremy Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; @AB_CD@; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040924 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; @AB_CD@; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040924 Firefox/0.9.1+

When a table with border-collapse:collapse is floated, the padding is not
honored unless a display: rule is also set. This is in conflict with the CSS
spec (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#float and
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#q24) which states that a floated
element is always considered to be equivalent to display:block.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Apply the rules border-collapse:collapse; float:left; padding: 50px; to a table.
2. Wonder why you don't get any padding.
3. Add display:block;
4. See the padding applied.

Actual Results:  
Padding isn't applied unless display: is set.

Expected Results:  
Padding should be applied even in the absence of the display: rule.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

invalid per http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-CSS21-20040225/visuren.html#dis-pos-flo

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Though the sentence in
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-CSS21-20040225/tables.html#collapsing-borders just
before "Border Conflict Resolution" is needed too

Comment 3

[Jeremy Davis]

(In reply to comment #2)
Sorry. Thanks very much for clearing that up.