286714 - hidden form fields are displayed in table cell

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 41806

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Sigmund Lahn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

A form with only hidden inputs are displayed as an empty line if there is
another element (<a>, text, whatever) in the same table cell.

If the other element is nested inside the form, it is displayed correctly.

Example page:
http://home.no.net/jtolkien/table-form-bug.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://home.no.net/jtolkien/table-form-bug.html
Examples are provided.


Actual Results:  
The two columns on the example page
http://home.no.net/jtolkien/table-form-bug.html are not rendered in the same way.

Expected Results:  
Rendered both columns the same way.

Comment 1

[Bernd]

Attachment: testcase in strict mode

in quirks mode that 1em is added do you want to get rid of it?, use the strict
mode.

Comment 2

[Sigmund Lahn]

Attachment: Scrrenshot of test case

This gif shows how the proposed "fix", test case in strict mode, renders in my
browser.

Comment 3

[Sigmund Lahn]

Opps, havn't used this tracker befor, and when I added the attachment, my
comment "dissapeared" ;). Meant to say that the test case supplied by Bernd in
fact makes both ways of nesting render wrong....

Comment 4

[Bernd]

yep, firefox 1.0.1 is pretty old layoutwise, this is fixed in the recent nightlies
since 2005-02-17 by bug 41806

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41806 ***