291834 - Height attribute in percent is ignored for <object> <iframe> and <table>.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Nils Hammar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050425
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050425

A page where the height of an object (<object> of <iframe>) is given in percent
is not rendered correctly. IE 6.0 and Opera 8 does this correctly.

However the width attribute works fine!

<object data="/cgi-bin/music.sh" type="text/html" width="100%" height="90%" />

and

<iframe src="/cgi-bin/music.sh" width="100%" height="90%" ></iframe>

are tried with the same result.

The same problem also goes for the <table> object, so it's a general height problem.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a simple web page containing any object of type <object> <iframe> or
<table>
2. View the page and the height attribute given in percent of page height is
ignored!
3.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: testcase table

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050423 (older than
report)

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050425
also wfm if I change width of tables in testcase from 80% to 100%

Comment 3

[Nils Hammar]

Attachment: Same test case as before but XHTML 1.1-conformant

This test code shows that the bug is present in XHTML 1.1 handling, compare
that with the previous test case that is HTML 4.01.

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050425

first testcase renders correctly in quirks mode, but shows bug in DOM
Inspector´s Browser View

second testcase shows bug in valid xhtml.

Comment 5

[Bernd]

In standards compliance mode the height attribute  should be ignored when the
containing block does not have specified height. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-height. Please note that IE6 sp2
and mozilla do render the xhtml testcase identical.

Comment 6

[Bernd]

marking invalid, please reopen if you read something different from CSS 2.1