272269 - tfoot automatically selected according to source code order

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Justin Watt]

When you select a THEAD row and the first TBODY row in a table, the TFOOT row is
also selected (IE6 exhibits the same behavior). See URL with test case.

Expected behavior would be for text to be selected in the table in the order
that it appears, not in the source code order.

See Bug 272267 for related copy/paste problem.

Comment 1

[dolphinling]

*** Bug 272267 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Justin Watt]

(From Bug 272267) As a result of this bug, when a table is copied out of a
webpage, the THEAD, TFOOT, TBODY order of the HTML source is preserved.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Justin, could you please attach the testcase to this bug, so it won't be lost if
that URL changes?

Comment 4

[Justin Watt]

Attachment: testcase for bug

this html testcase demonstrates the bug and describes the expected vs. actual
behavior. it is the same file available at this url:
http://justinsomnia.org/mozilla/tfoot_copy_problem.html

Comment 5

[Robin Whittleton]

Although it doesn’t fix the bug, HTML5 has relaxed the spec to allow <tfoot> to follow <tbody> so in that case selection would be ordered correctly:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-tfoot-element