29627 - <TABLE ALIGN=center> ... </TABLE> centres table cell contents

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 7112

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Lloyd]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; I; HP-UX B.11.00 9000/780; Nav)
BuildID:    Any current build (as of 29th Feb 2000)

Mozilla appears to be centreing table cell contents when a table
is surrounded by <DIV ALIGN=center>...</DIV> or <CENTER>...</CENTER>.
This is the opposite behaviour to Netscape 4.72, MSIE 5.01 or
Opera 3.62 (all left-align table cell contents).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Here's some HTML code that shows up the problem:

<CENTER>
<TABLE>
<TR><TD>Some text.<BR>Shouldn't be centred</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</CENTER>

You can use <DIV ALIGN=center>...</DIV> instead of <CENTER>...</CENTER> of
course (BTW, why can't we have British
English spellings of "center" - an English guy invented the Web
after all :-) )

Actual Results:  Mozilla centres the table cell contents - i.e. it is being
affected
by the table-wide <CENTER>...</CENTER>

Expected Results:  Netscape 4.72, MSIE 5.01 and Opera 3.62 all ignore the outer
<CENTER>...</CENTER> and leave the table cell contents left-aligned.

Looking at the W3C HTML 4.01 spec on the TABLE and DIV tags is zero
help in this area - it simply doesn't specify a default table cell 
alignment or if <DIV ALIGN=center> (or <CENTER>) surrounding a table
affects the table cell alignment.

I could be wrong in all this - maybe there is something in the W3C
spec that I missed. However, since NS, MSIE and Opera all show the
same (different to Mozilla) behaviour, I suspect a problem with
Mozilla...it could have a major impact on existing sites that
use centred tables.

BTW, this isn't the same bug as #18545 before you ask :-)

Comment 1

[troy]

When I look at your example using the CENTER tag, I get exactly the same thing 
displayed in Gecko, Nav 4.61. and IE5. In all cases the text is left-aligned, 
and the table itself is centered in the window

The bug says Windows 95 for the OS, but your user agent says HP-UX. I don't know 
why this should be different for NT than HP-UX, but reassigning to Kevin and 
changing OS

Comment 2

[Richard Lloyd]

Oops, I've changed the summary on this one - it's actually TABLE ALIGN=center
that causes the problem:

<TABLE ALIGN=center>
<TR><TD>This bit of text<BR>
should not be centred inside the table cell</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

The URL I gave as an example shows this up - on Mozilla the table cell contents
are centred, on all other browsers, they're not (they're left-aligned).
<TABLE ALIGN=center> is still a valid tag/attribute, even in HTML 4.01 but the
W3C have deprecated it.

Comment 3

[karnaze (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7112 ***

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified dup of 7112.