28196 - extra vertical space in table cell with anchor

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 5821

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[karnaze (gone)]

This was reported by [e-mail] on the layout nesgroup. I will 
attach the example mentioned. When the reported problem is fixed in quirks mode, 
please reassign the bug to me, because I see a different table problem in 
standard mode. Davin states:

Could I please have a confirm from someone whether this is a bug, or simply
another NS vs. IE rendering of W3C <TABLE>

the bug(?) appears when a <TABLE> with parameters of CELLPADDING=0
CELLSPACING=0  and BORDER=0
The way I understand it, if I put a grid of identically sized images
together in a cell each the images should all meet, and they do

Until one of the cells is an anchor around the image
eg <A HREF="blah.html"><IMG SRC="image.png" BORDER=0></A>

then we get top and bottom spaces on the IMG (not always a consistent space
either)

for  an example of this, I've set up a page at
http://youhave.to/test_tableahref.html
to show the effect.

Is this a bug, am I crazy(for thinking it is, no other reasons)?

Davin

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I think this is similar to bug 15933, which was just reopened from DUPLICATE
since my fix for bug 15428 did not fix bug 15933.

I'll try to look at it tomorrow.

Comment 2

[buster]

does this have anything to do with troy's change for making the table cell a 
margin root?  I doubt it, but thought I'd mention that change here just in case.

Comment 3

[buster]

unless I hear that this is effecting some important web site, it'll have to wait 
until after beta1

Comment 4

[jst]

This sounds exactly like Bug 5821 wich I just reopened due to a very similar
(same?) pronlem, could someone check if it's a dup?

Comment 5

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

Yes, this does look like a dup of 5821.  Marking as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5821 ***

Comment 6

[Christian Mattar]

Verifying as dupe