Closed Bug 32248 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

<table bgcolor=""> not showing up

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

x86
Windows NT
defect

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 46268

People

(Reporter: james, Assigned: karnaze)

References

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; N; WinNT4.0; en-US; m14)
BuildID:    2000031608

view the page in IE 4 or 5. notice the border around each section. i gave the
table a background color and set the cellspacing to 1. notice it's missing in
nav4 and this mozilla release.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.no steps, it just doesn't render the table correctly
2.
3.


Actual Results:  see description

Expected Results:  see description

it's Cosmetic, but by no means trivial to web designers.
Related to bug 8524?

Gerv
This URL renders identically in NS 4.5 and 20000418 (M15). Marking WORKSFORME.

Gerv
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Adding 'verifyme' keyword
Keywords: verifyme
Reporter said by email:

you didn't read the original bug. it rendered identically because it is broken 
in BOTH versions of netscape. (4.7 and 6 pr2) i'm not trying to sound like i'm 
insulting your company, but Internet Explorer is just a highly superior product. 
i've attached a very simple html file that illustrates the problem. it works in 
Internet Explorer, it does not work in any version of netscape. i'm assuming 
you're a programmer so this may seem insignificant to you, but as a web designer 
and developer, it's just one of many reasons why i prefer IE over any netscape 
product. apparently most web users agree with me. i have many "netscape 
workarounds" that i have to use because i develop cross-browser pages. however 
this makes the html heavy and convoluted. it's bad news all-around. please fix 
the bug... when you're finished, if you want some more advice from an anal 
designer like me, i've got more bugs i can show you. if not, then have a nice 
life and i'm sorry that i was a pain in your ass. james craig 
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---
James - my apologies, I didn't read your bug report carefully enough. This bug 
is, in fact, a duplicate of bug 46268 (which is, admittedly, a newer bug, but 
has more information in it.)

The reason Mozilla renders the page like NS 4.x (i.e. incorrectly) is that, if 
the DOCTYPE on the document is HTML 4 Transitional, it renders pages in "Quirks 
mode" - i.e. like NS 4.x. If you change your testcase to have a strict doctype:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
then it will render correctly in Mozilla.

The bug that I am marking this bug a duplicate of will, when fixed, cause 
Mozilla to render this like IE in Quirks mode, rather than like NS 4.x. In the 
mean time, you can do the above to get your pages to render correctly.

I hope this is helpful :-)

Please feel free to file more bugs against Mozilla - however, please check that 
they are not duplicates by searching the database, and also that they render 
incorrectly with a strict DOCTYPE. Thanks :-)

Gerv


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46268 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
vrfy dup
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Keywords: verifyme
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