265666 - Extra space under image in table cell, for anything other than "Transitional" doctype.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22274

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[Jason Van Cleve]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040928
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040928

If I use anything other than the HTML 4.01 Transitional doctype declaration (or
no doctype declaration at all), I get extra, unwanted space beneath images in
table cells.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display my sample page.
2. Edit it, removing the "Transitional" declaration.
3. Display it again, and notice the extra space.

Actual Results:  
I get extra space below the image, unwanted, annoying.

Expected Results:  
The table should be flush with the image on all sides, irrespective of the
doctype declaration.

Note that the space on the left side of the image is okay:  that's a transparent
region.  The space beneath the image, in the cell, is not part of the image.

This bug makes it impossible to control layout acceptably using anything other
than HTML 4.01 Transitional.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This is supposed to happen.
See
http://web.archive.org/web/20031203014410/devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/img-table/
for why, and what to do about it.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a dup, actually.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22274 ***