309714 - CSS margin incorrectly applied between TABLE and CAPTION

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 297676

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[vosv9md02]

User-Agent:       Opera/8.50 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

If you create a table including a caption tag, then apply table { margin: value;
 } then the margin is applied to the table but not the caption. 

The caption is part of the table element and should be included within the 
bounds of the table element; eg. in this situation that means the margin should 
be applied above the caption if the caption is sitting at the top of a table; 
not between the table and caption.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In an (X)HTML file, create a TABLE including a CAPTION (source below)
2. Use CSS to apply a margin to the TABLE
3. View result...
Actual Results:  
In Firefox, the caption is pushed away from the table cells, and extends to the 
width of the table+margin.

Expected Results:  
The caption should remain attached to the top of the table, with no gap between 
the caption and the cells. It should be the exact same width as the table cell 
group.

Comment 1

[vosv9md02]

Attachment: Test case which illustrates the bug

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Indeed, the world seems to have changed: in
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-CSS21-20040225/tables.html#q5 we were correct,
collapsing between a table's margin-top and a caption's margin-bottom, but in
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CSS21-20050613/tables.html#q5 we should be
collapsing the table's margin-top and the caption's margin-*top*.

Comment 3

[Bernd]

I think it is adupe of bug 297676

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 297676 ***