321474 - colspan > 1000 doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Eric Jain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Any colspan > 1000 seems to be ignored.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Eric Jain]

Attachment: Page containing a table with lots of columns and two rows with a large colspan

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Feature, not bug. See Bug 141818 for the reasons for this protection.

Comment 3

[Eric Jain]

Not sure I follow the reasoning: I can also hang the browser with a huge page or a page with a huge table. So why don't you protect against these (more likely) cases as well (I don't think you do)? Ideally you'd be able to limit the amount of resources used per page, though I guess that may be difficult (or impossible) to implement...

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Probably because there are cases in reality where really big tables are needed, whereas cases with such big colspan or rowspan are unlikely to be needed. Also we are just being compatible with IE and Opera here ;).

Comment 5

[Eric Jain]

Pity. Guess I shouldn't be using tables for drawing graphs then :-)

Comment 6

[u304681]

I know that there is a reason for this ( Bug 141818 ), and after a similar bug related to rowspan ( Bug 688405 ) this has been documented on the MDN td page ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/td ), but is there a chance that you reconsider your statement? Chrome is fine with the 1000+ colspan, per say.

As for a use case: pivot table.

Related bug: Bug 444842