307868 - no space between inline elements inside display:table

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218460

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Michael A. Puls II]

User-Agent:       Opera/8.02 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#anonymous-boxes

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Michael A. Puls II]

Attachment: Simple testcase. It should display "This is spaced." and not "Thisisspaced.". Firefox is not generating the missing, required table elements. Check in Opera to see proper result.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This probably doesn't have anything to do with anonymous table objects being
missing, but rather whitespace getting dropped because we're "inside a table",
even though we're not.

Also, please use http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ instead of
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Probably a duplicate of bug 218460, though, except that needs a broader summary.

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218460 ***

Comment 5

[Michael A. Puls II]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This probably doesn't have anything to do with anonymous table objects being
> missing, but rather whitespace getting dropped because we're "inside a table",
> even though we're not.

I assumed it did because in the test case, I can put an element with nothing in 
it before the x element and an element with nothing in it after the z element 
and Firefox appears to treat that as xyz being in a td.

So it appears that Firefox will style an existing element with nothing in it as 
a table-cell element, but firefox won't create a td element when necessary.

However, like you said, it could just be a white space handling problem, but it 
appears that the white space problem happens because Firefox isn't generating 
the neede elements.

> Also, please use http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ instead of
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/

Yep, wrong spec uri. My fault.

Comment 6

[Michael A. Puls II]

Attachment: Oops, I just meant that if I encase x,y and z in an element, Firefox will then honor the spacing