272182 - Style attribute on colgroup tag has no effect

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

Example code:

<table style="width: 30em; border: solid red 1px">
<colgroup style="text-align: center;">
<colgroup style="text-align: right;">
<tr><td>a</td><td>b</td></tr>
</table>

the text in column one (a) should be centered,
the text in column two (b) should be right-aligned


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See Details

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

text-align cannot be applied to COLGROUP.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 915 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 915 ***

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

sorry, bill is right. back to invalid.

Comment 4

[Justin]

Just for the record: The previous example code may be invalid. But text-align
can be applied to a TD so the following CSS code should work but doesn't:

--

colgroup.number td { text-align: right; }
colgroup.text td { text-align: center; }

--

<table>
 <colgroup>
  <col class="number" />
  <col class="text" />
 </colgroup>
 <tr>
  <td>21312</td>
  <td>dwdwdw</td>
 </tr>
</table>

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Justin, that code should not work, since colgroup is not an ancestor of the td
in your example.