286428 - text-align style does not align a table inside a cell

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Sergio Del Franco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

CSS2 says:
"17.5.4 Horizontal alignment in a column
The horizontal alignment of a cell's content within a cell box is specified with
the 'text-align' property."

This does not occur when content is a table.
Works ok when content are paragraphs or rulers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See attachment.
Actual Results:  
Table inside cell is not aligned.

Expected Results:  
Table inside cell should be aligned.

Comment 1

[Sergio Del Franco]

Attachment: testcase for bug: a table inside a table

Comment 2

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

It's not supposed to.  Use 'auto' horizontal margins instead.

Comment 3

[Sergio Del Franco]

(In reply to comment #2)
> It's not supposed to.  Use 'auto' horizontal margins instead.

What a dumb of me! I must understand that the word "text" means literally text,
and no boxes.
Maybe i was confused by IE rendering... i can't understand how i still believe it.

Anyway, thanks for your quick answer, David.