267497 - html tables in e-mail have problems with colspan / rowspan

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Matthew Stier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040919
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040919

Tables with column and row spans display properly in the browser, but display
improperly went sent as part of an e-mail message.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a webpage, with row and column spans in the first two rows.
2. Send the webpage as the embedded content in an e-mail message.
3. View email message, rowspans will not span rows, colspans cause drop of every
other cell in row.


Actual Results:  
View email message, rowspans will not span rows, colspans cause drop of every
other cell in row.

Expected Results:  
Same as webpage.

Reproduceable in Windows version of Mozilla 1.7.3

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Is the message in question actually in HTML, or has it been converted to plain 
text from HTML?

Can you supply a sample message?  Save as .EML, attach to this bug using the 
Create New Attachment link above.

Comment 2

[Matthew Stier]

Attachment: Sample of colspan / rowspan problem

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Wow.  That's hardly a minor bug.  Screenshots to follow, reproduced on Win2K.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Attachment: Sample message as viewed in TB 0.8, Win2K

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Attachment: HTML from sample as viewed in Moz 1.8a5

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

that's almost certainly something in layout, not tbird - my guess is that this
is probably fixed in tbird .9

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #6)
> that's almost certainly something in layout, not tbird - my guess is that this
> is probably fixed in tbird .9

No, it isn't.  The HTML looks fine in Firefox 1.0; but in today's nightly Aviary 
build (version 0.9+ (20041112)) it's still shown wrong in the mail.

I don't know if this is a clue, but: when displaying as Simple HTML, the column 
alignment and text width is all the same; the only difference is that the cell 
borders are not shown.

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Hi Joe. Does testcase still fail?

Comment 10

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Testcase work properly in current trunk and TB 31