27555 - Table cells with %-width attributes should stretch proportionately

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew Leung]

The top navigation bar on the top of the page (the one with the tabs) are not 
centred correctly.  When viewed under ie or netscape 4.71, the tabs are 
centred.  When view with mozilla, the tabs are shifted to the right side.

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

Attachment: testcase; width allocations to pct. columns, with one columns contents of fixed width

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

This is a tables thing, and may be a duplicate of a known problem. 

Comments from the attached testcase: 
Compare the above two tables, mozilla to 4.x browser. Notice that
the center column of the top table is shifted to the right in mozilla,
relative to the position that it takes with 4.x. Essentially, the
pattern that leads to this behaviour is :

1) a 100% width containing table,

2) 3 columns each with an assigned percentage width (49%,2%,49% = 100%),

3) the center column contains a fixed width table --- this leads to an
unequal allocation of the surplus width between the first and third
columns (i.e., unbalanced width for left and right columns, even
though they "request" the same percentage allocation.)

Comment 3

[John Morrison]

*** Bug 32409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Richard Zach]

Taking the liberty to change the summary to something more descriptive.

Comment 5

[Richard Zach]

*** Bug 35248 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[karnaze (gone)]

This was fixed a few weeks ago and may be a dup of another bug.

Comment 7

[Christine Hoffman]

Using 9/14 build, verified bug fixed.