303294 - table cells content will not be rendered correctly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Kalytta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50215)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

In the page http://www.kalytta.com/bugs/test.table.html table cells content 
will not be rendered correctly. For example <img src="test.gif" width="100%" 
height="100%" alt="test"> will not fully span the tables cell space as you can 
see with the image below cell 2.8 and below cell 4.6

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just create a table with some rowspans and add an image with width/height = 
100% as shown on http://www.kalytta.com/bugs/test.table.html
Actual Results:  
Page is not correctly rendered

Expected Results:  
Image should span full table cell in height and width because 100% was 
specified in both directions.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Kalytta]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Benjamin Kalytta]

Attachment: 3x3 pixel test image

This image should be stretched to fill entire table cell

Comment 3

[Benjamin Kalytta]

Comment on attachment 191521 [details]
testcase

Main test html file which produces this incorret output

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050803 Firefox/1.0+
ID:2005080313

The file you linked to on your site looks fine to me.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Kalytta]

Attachment: rendered output

This image show how the content is rendered here. You'll see that bottom 2
images will not span the entire cell in height.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Kalytta]

Attachment: expected output

This is the expected rendering result.

Comment 7

[Benjamin Kalytta]

The bug is already there. Will this not be fixed some day? It's 2 yers old now.

Comment 8

[Daniel.S]

(In reply to comment #7)
> The bug is already there. Will this not be fixed some day? It's 2 yers old now.

You reported the bug, so it's on the dev's radar. However, there are more important things to work on. Crying about an aging report won't help. The opposite is true: The more you "cry" the more you annoy the developers.

Hm, actually this is no bug at all.

The images simply end up becoming as wide as the table cell allows.
Because the images' width and height values become 'auto' per CSS, as their containing block's (the td's) height is not set, the images simply expand in a 1:1 ratio to fit the available width without caring about the available height.

Hm, I see that IE7 (also the latest IE8 beta) and Opera act like Firefox, did IE6 something else?

Only Safari acts strange, but that seems to be the real bug.

Thanks for reporting anyway. Maybe in the future you'll be able to create tables like these, but for now we all have to live with a horribly underspecified table system.