Closed Bug 41795 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

<table align=left> doesn't change flow

Categories

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 37657

People

(Reporter: scottputterman, Assigned: buster)

References

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URL
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Details

Go to http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/statistics

Make your window so that the whole page won't fit in the view.  Notice that the
statitistics get moved below the table of contents area making the page look
bad.  In 4.7, a horizontal scrollbar appears instead.  I think it looks better
this way.
Well they simply start a new table and expect it to lay out right next to the 
last table, even though they expressed its witdh in pixels and not percent. So 
when it becomes wider than the screen, the new table is put under the old table. 
This is the proper way of laying out, if espn wants it to look that way they 
should enclose the left and right tables in a 2 col table. Otherwise they get 
that.  Anyhow.. long explanation, but this is not mozillas problem.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
I'm reopening.  You can mark future for all I care.  All I know is that IE5 and
Netscape 4.7 don't have this problem and with mozilla it looks stupid.  For a
while I thought the page hadn't loaded because all I saw was a blank page
because the stats were below my current viewing area.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Decided to mess around with the page (even though it would be very easy for espn 
to recode this to work)
And discoved this to be based upon how mozilla handled align and valign tags in 
tables.
What did we decide was to be the support of said tags? Are we simply not 
supporting them at all???
Additional Research:

In both IE and Netscape a <table align=left> will have the next table on its 
right side, no matter how big the table is.   For example
<html><body>
<table align=left width=2000>
    <tr><td>HI</td></tr>
</table>
<table>
    <tr><td>Test</td</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

In netscape and IE will produce

Hi (lotsa space)  Test

While Mozilla will produce 

Hi

Test


Which one is correct???  I would assume mozilla, but should we support the way 
netscape and IE handled it.   This is a whole new idea, marking as major (just 
to get eyes to look at the concept)
Severity: normal → major
Sorry forgot the update Summary, (does that sould right?)
Summary: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/statistics doesn't reflow nicely → <table align=left> doesn't change flow
Re-assigning to karnaze, master of table layout...
Assignee: clayton → karnaze
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Buster, this is a floater issue.
Assignee: karnaze → buster
Didn't Steve already "fix" (i.e., break) this?  I filed bug 43086 that the "fix" 
should be partly undone...
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago → 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
This looks fixed.  Marking dup of the same change, that fixed it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37657 ***
Verified dupe.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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