281493 - Incorrect table layout (column always 1px width) when using colspan

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[m.bode]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

There is a 3x3 table, where there are two colspans in two different rows, and
two given relative percantage-widths for different columns in different rows.
The middle column which should be 75% in width is always being display with 1px
width, which is not correct.

Other reported problems here concerning table layouts can obviosly be resolved
by reloading the page. This problem however occurs even after reloading.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open the attached HTML-file.
Actual Results:  
Incorrect table layout on screen.

Expected Results:  
See screenshot of how it should look like

This problem also occurs when the widths of col 1 and 3 are given in absolut
(pixel) widths.

Comment 1

[m.bode]

Attachment: HTML sample which shows the problem

Comment 2

[m.bode]

Attachment: Screenshot showing incorrect layout

Comment 3

[m.bode]

Attachment: Screenshot showing correct layout

Comment 4

[m.bode]

Still same incorrect behaviour with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2 as shown in the screenshot.

Comment 5

[m.bode]

Incorrect layout also appears with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X
Mach-O; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2. Safari displays table
correct (just as IE on Win does).

Comment 6

[m.bode]

Just went to a friends Linux-Box, and the incorrect layout also appears with
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 Firefox/1.0.2

Comment 7

[m.bode]

Incorrect layout also appears on latest nightly Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows
NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050331 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 8

[Markus Stumpf]

Attachment: four simple examples showing more problems and how they evolve

this may be related.
if one uses overlapping table rows and adds text one table row becomes overly
wide and get empty padding without need

Comment 9

[Markus Stumpf]

See also confirmed bug 213809

Comment 10

[Bernd]

or more bug 187550 

Comment 11

[Scott Johnson (:jwir3)]

Tested on Nightly from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d68224f5325b