317604 - Styling group to be a table breaks binding

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: XForms, defect)

Description

[Duane Gran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

If a class attribute is set on an xforms:group element, such that the rendering is display:table, binding fails for an input within the group.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See forthcoming attachment

Comment 1

[Duane Gran]

Attachment: Test showing how binding fails when a table-oriented class is set to the outer group.

Please see the attachment for an example of the issue.  I'm a little new to bugzilla, so please let me know if this isn't adequate.

Comment 2

[Allan Beaufour]

Attachment: Testcase 2

We have problems with CSS tables in general (bug 291841). But I believe it in fact is the class on the repeat that creates havoc.

I've modified your testcase a bit, and is the third case not what you actually want to achieve? I'm not sure it actually styles as it should, but at least the binding is working :)

Comment 3

[Duane Gran]

Attachment: full table test

Thank you for the revision to this test case.  The attached test shows how things turn out strangly if I try to build a table and just repeat a particular row.  Ultimately this is what I'm after, but in the process I found an oddity with setting a class on the repeat element.  In this test case it shows how the table formatting is disrupted in the second row because of the grouping.

From what I've read in the docs, the solution to this problem is to support attribute-level repeats, as noted in <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=280368">280368</a>.  I don't want to turn this bug report into a forum, but are there any work arounds to create a table with repeating rows?  I've tried about every permutation of repeats and groups that I can think of without success.

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

The fourth case is really hard to fix, the mixture of html and anonymous content which generates more anon content.

I couldn't get it to work very well either.

Comment 5

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Updating summary. This bug shouldn't have anything to do with class attribute.

Comment 6

[Allan Beaufour]

Is this a dupe of bug 291841?

Comment 7

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

The main problem is that XBL bindigns doesn't applied to elements that have 'table-row' or 'table-cell' display property. After bug 83830 will be fixed we need ensure testcases work. And if they work then we will mark this bug as dublicate of bug 83830.

Comment 8

[aaronr]

Duane, please try this on a nightly trunk build dated after 01/03/2007 (so that it has the fix for bug 83830.  I'm not sure that the behavior now is exactly what you were looking for or not.  If not, please update this bug as to what we are still missing.  But it seems to me that the group binding is now working that was previously failing.

Comment 9

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

RIP xforms