Closed Bug 29187 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

A background image in a table should fill the entire table?

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Tables
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: tomwuttke, Assigned: karnaze)

References

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Details

If a table tag has a background= property, I would expect the entire table area 
to be filled with one large tile of the image, as it does in IE.  What Mozilla 
and Navigator 4.5 are doing is applying the background image to each table cell 
individually rather than to the table as a whole.  (see example in both 
browsers) 

I looked at the CSS spec, and I don't see any provisions for this strange 
behavior.  What do you make of this?   I can use div tags as a hokey 
workaround, but I'd like to know the story behind the interpretation of the 
spec.

Thanks!
Changing component to HTML Tables
Assignee: troy → karnaze
Component: Layout → HTMLTables
QA Contact: petersen → chrisd
You are seeing the NavQuirks behavior. You need <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC 
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> to get 
the correct behavior. Marking invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
OK thanks!  That did the trick.  I passed this on to our content developers as 
well.  You can go ahead and close this.
Verified invalid per reporter comments.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
*** Bug 68661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 69221 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Making this no longer a quirk (i.e., use standard mode behavior all the time) is
covered by bug 4510.
*** Bug 74297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 80710 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 80710 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think this sould not be marked INVALID since using strict mode causes some 
other layout changes as well.
The background image should fill the entire tabel also in quirk-mode!
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