40110 - [P-MARGIN] Quirk Bug: Empty P between two blocks has no vertical space

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 35772

(Core :: Layout, defect, P2)

Description

[Matthew Cline]

Banner ads on Slashdot have no vertical space between them and the rest of
the page content, like they should.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

Confirmed on 2000052120 on Win2K

Comment 2

[WD]

Attachment: Simplified case of this bug

Comment 3

[WD]

It appears that when a <p> is sandwiched between two tables, it is ignored.
(a <p> between 2 images or between a table and an image works fine)

Comment 4

[Marc Attinasi]

wdormann, thanks for the testcase!

This problem is QuirkMode only: in Standard mode we get vertical spacing 
consistently.

The problem is more general than originally stated and is not restricted to 
tables. I'll attach a testcase showing that having an empty P between two blocks 
causes the problem. If the empty P is between an inline and a block, or between 
two inlines then there is no problem.

Re-phrasing the summary and assigning to buster. New testcase will be attached.

Comment 5

[Marc Attinasi]

Attachment: New testcase showing behavior in all three cases (see comments of 5/22)

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

related: bug 29361

what happens when the <p> tag is closed below the second element?

Comment 7

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Marking compat. Nom. nsbeta3, recc. nsbeta3 [some lenient date-]. Ps were
historically widely consider as (and used as) "spacers" so I suspect there's a
fair amount of this out there. Would like to emulate in quirks but wouldn't hold
rtm for it.

Comment 8

[buster]

I reduced this down and found it's just a dup.  Already fixed in my tree, to be 
checked in soon.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35772 ***

Comment 9

[Matt Perry]

Verified duplicate.