Closed Bug 280187 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Don't force a <br> in an <td>

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

1.7 Branch
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253185

People

(Reporter: Manuel.Spam, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Mnenhy/0.7.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Mnenhy/0.7.1

A common way to create some space between table rows is to create a row between
them and add a style that sets the cell height to the needed space. As composer
forces an <br> in each <td> this is impossible as the size defined via style is
always "pushed" to the font height.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a table with one col and three rows
2. Use the configuration dialog of the cell between the two rows and set the
height to 2px
3. click OK
Actual Results:  
The cell that I've changed to 2px isn't displayed with 2px as the <br> forces it
to have the height of the current font. It's even impossible to remove the <br>
in the source view. It gets recreated every time.

Expected Results:  
Don't force the <br> to allow to set the row height independent on the font height
Bugs 280187, 253185, and 241400 all basically say the same thing.  Apparently,
this is a very prolific and unpopular bug.  I know it's my least favorite,
anyway.  The automatically inserted <br> tags serve no purpose, most of the time.
(In reply to comment #1)
> Bugs 280187, 253185, and 241400 all basically say the same thing.  Apparently,
> this is a very prolific and unpopular bug.  I know it's my least favorite,
> anyway.  The automatically inserted <br> tags serve no purpose, most of the time.

This is a comment showing you know little about tables. Empty cells are often
not drawn by browsers so if we don't fill new table cells with something, the
resulting behavior is found ugly by 99% of web authors. Furthermore, we hit
there the good'ol'bug about selection and empty lines. That's why we needed <br>
there.
But how could it be made possible to use "table rows" as separators using their
height-property? Perhaps it would be a solution to "kill" all "<br>"'s as soon
as the user sets a height to the cell via configuration?

The problem is not only that composer forces the <br>'s for new tables or pages,
it even "kills" layout of existing pages as soon as you open them in composer.
Version: unspecified → 1.7 Branch
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
Resolution: EXPIRED → DUPLICATE
Still buggy after 12 years (cf #154080).
I also ran across it because it mangled my layout (see initial commen here) if an empty cell column is used for horizontal spacing and the other cell column is made smaller, e.g. with <small> tags.
I found this workaround, for those who care (not a bug solution, though, quite obviously):
<style>br {font-size: 0;}</style>

(also commenting in #253185 because this one is marked duplicate despite its better problem description)
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