292548 - <col> elements do not honor CSS

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[John Page]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; (R1 1.5); .NET CLR 1.0.3705; Media Center PC 2.8)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Any CSS that is attached to <col> tags seems to be ignored.  In the example 
attached, <col style="background:yellow"> is rendered with a white background.  
If you attach the style to the individual <td> elements they are honored.  I 
have not been able to ascertain if the standard says they should honor CSS.   
But IE, Opera, Konqueror, etc all seem to.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run attached HTML file
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
CSS ignored on the <col> tags

Comment 1

[John Page]

Attachment: html file showing <col> bug

Comment 2

[Richard Brodie]

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4 details the limited things you can do
with column styles in CSS2.

Background is WFM on the trunk (bug 237078), color not expected to work/INVALID.

Incidentally, Opera renders your example the same for me.

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

In Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
Firefox/1.0.3
- Left column background is white (expected yellow)
- Right column text is black (apparently expected red)

In Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050501
Firefox/1.0+
- Left column background is yellow (as expected)
- Right column text is black (as expected as per comment 2)

WFM/INVALID?

Comment 4

[mrnobo1024]

Using a non-CSS background (bgcolor=yellow) doesn't work in either version.

Comment 5

[John Page]

(In reply to comment #2)
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4 details the limited things you can 
do
> with column styles in CSS2.
> Background is WFM on the trunk (bug 237078), color not expected to 
work/INVALID.
> Incidentally, Opera renders your example the same for me.

Sorry , what is WFM?  What is the trunk?  Opera renders the left col yellow bg 
but does not render the right col in red.  Another issue for Opera I guess.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Sorry , what is WFM?

"Works for me".

> What is the trunk? 

The current development version (or Firefox 1.1 prerelease if you prefer).

> but does not render the right col in red.

That's the correct behavior.  Please see the specification cited in comment 2.

Verified invalid.