36003 - [FLOAT] Table with align=left not displayed in fieldset

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect, P2)

Description

[Jim Kelleher]

As the link to the Netscape Feedback Center does not work... The browser does
not understand the HTML 4.0 Form elements and messes up my navigation. It does
work in NN4+ and Mozilla build 13 so why not NS6? Have you removed functionality??

Thanks!

Comment 1

[Jim Kelleher]

visit http://members.xoom.com/Paddle9/db/join.html for a direct example or click
twice from the above link.

Comment 2

[Richard Zach]

There's a table with align=left inside a fieldset.  The table doesn't is
rendered outside the fieldset, and only partially.  The problem goes away if you
set the align on the table ="center" or remove it; it remains if align="right".

Confirmed on Linux build 2000.04.16.06.  Attaching a testcase. Reassign to
Layout.

Comment 3

[Richard Zach]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 4

[troy]

Sounds like the frame construction fieldset code isn't setting itself as a 
floater container and so the floater is leaking outside of the fieldset

Comment 5

[rods (gone)]

buster is going to take a look

Comment 6

[buster]

redistributing bugs across future milestones, sorry for the spam

Comment 7

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Nom. nsbeta3, recc. nsbeta3+ [some lenient date -]. Want to encourage use of 
fieldsets to ease legibility of forms on the web, and fieldsets will inevitably 
contain tables, many of which will be left-aligned, so we'd like this to work. 
However, wouldn't hold nsbeta3 or rtm for this; should relnote if run out of 
time.

Comment 8

[Marc Attinasi]

Denied for beta3. Another floater problem to be addressed if we have time or in 
next version.

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

What exactly is the problem here? The testcase looks ok to me (assuming quirks
mode - in standards mode shouldn't the table float out of the fieldset?).

Comment 10

[Kurt Weinschenker]

Attempted to link to original URL tonight, URL listed up top doesn't exist anymore.

Comment 11

[Jim Kelleher]

Hi, The URL has now changed to http://members.nbci.com/Paddle9/db/join.html and 
bug still exists.

Jim Kelleher.

Comment 12

[Kurt Weinschenker]

Yes, indeed this bug does still exist.  Mac OS 9.0.4, Mozilla build 2000100720-M18.

Comment 13

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Nom. nsbeta1. We want to enable fieldsets (highly desired by developers for use
on complex web forms) and tables (widely used in web content/web forms) to play
nicely together.

Comment 14

[buster]

we may be doing this correctly, according to CSS2.  Looks to me like a fieldset
is just a block element.  In the test case, a fieldset contains a floating
table.  Floaters don't contribute to the height or width of their containing
block.  So the fieldset thinks it contains 0-sized content.  If you replace
"fieldset" with "div", you get the same result.

IE is inconsistent.  They do exactly what we do with "div", but they inflate the
fieldset to include the floater.  I need to think about this a bit to see what
the right thing to do really is.  David, what do you think?

Comment 15

[buster]

ian, any opinion?

Comment 16

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

I don't see any problem in the simplified testcase and I don't see where the
problem is in the original one.

I'll leave it to Ian to mark as INVALID if he wants since I don't
understand his 2000-08-25 comment.

Or maybe fieldset should be special?  I don't know.  I'd have to look more
at the intended definition of fieldset.

Comment 17

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

The layout seems to be correct now, except that the float is being clipped on
initial reflow -- resizing the window or changing the font-size causes the whole
table to appear.

Comment 18

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Build reassigning Buster's bugs to Marc.

Comment 19

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

I no longer see the initial reflow clipping. Closing WFM (today's Linux CVS).