272181 - Margin of a table exclude the table caption

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[mozillabugs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Simple example code

<table style="border: solid red 1px; margin: 1em">
<caption style="border: solid blue 1px;">caption</caption>
<tr><td>a</td><td>b</td></tr>
</table>

The caption is placed at 1em distance above the table. This 
doesn't make sense to me. I'm of the opinion that the margin
of the table should be a margin around the table and caption.

I think IE (5.5) reders this more correct. Although it is 
questionable that both IE and Gecko render the table border
around the the table and not the table and caption.





Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description

Comment 1

[Bernd]

your proposal would violate http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q5 see
especially the graphic