263859 - Cell widths wrong when colspan used

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187550

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Phil Endecott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040719 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040719 Firefox/0.9.1

I have a table with 2 rows and 3 columns.  In the first row the middle column is
colspanned with the left column and in the second row the middle column is
colspanned with the right column, like this:

+--------------------+
|                 |  |
|--+--------------+--|
|  |                 |
+--------------------+

I have declared the left and right columns to be 10% wide.  But Mozilla displays
it with a zero-width middle column:


+--------------------+
|          |         |
|----------+---------|
|          |         |
+--------------------+

Here is the code:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">90% jg ghe uighgu erhg eugh eriugher uiehg eghergu hegui
ehguegherug ehrguehg eur hgeru eru giehge</td>
    <td style="width: 10%">10%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="width: 10%">10%</td>
    <td colspan="2">90% g jgerj gergjer oigehrgerhg ergh eguerh gerog hergo
hergou ehgeo ugheoig uehrg oerhgerghe ohger</td>
  </tr>
</table>


If I add "width: 90%" to the colspan="2" cells I get a layout closer to what I
consider correct, with the end columns about 25% and the middle column about 50%.

Internet explorer displays it as I expected, and Konqueror is close.

I will attach example code and some screenshots.

(I bet this is a dupe, but a search didn't find anything - sorry.)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Phil Endecott]

Attachment: HTML demonstrating problem

Comment 2

[Phil Endecott]

Attachment: Mozilla screenshot

Comment 3

[Phil Endecott]

Attachment: Konqueror screenshot

Comment 4

[Phil Endecott]

Attachment: Internet explorer screenshot

Comment 5

[Bernd]

Attachment: testcase with another row added

the testcse shows that if for every column a td exists the width information is
honoured.

Comment 6

[Bernd]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187550 ***

Comment 7

[Phil Endecott]

Thanks Bernd, I was sure this would be a dupe but couldn't find one.  I was
always searching for something including "width".  Maybe that word could go in
the summary for 187550?

Cheers,  --Phil