44463 - <TR> and <TD> tags being ignored in <TABLE>

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Horry]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
BuildID:    2000070220

Table is created OK but the contents are not formatted correctly, the rendering 
engine appears to be ignoring the tags completely.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a look at the URL in question
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Actual Results:  Outlne of table is OK but the only formatting is the text being 
centered, which it shouldn't be anyway!

Expected Results:  Have a look at the following (MSIE, blech!) screenshot of how 
the page should look: http://www.wibble.co.uk/images/wibble-uk-main-index.jpg

It could be my HTML, but unlikely - this worked in Mozilla up until around build 
20000628xx

Comment 1

[Chris Horry]

Could be a problem with the whole <TABLE> system, see 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_816000/816589.stm as 
another example of incorrect formatting.

Comment 2

[Martin Horwath]

i have a testcase for this one. this might be a dup of bug 44395.

Comment 3

[Martin Horwath]

Attachment: a non closing <b> tag causing the problem.

Comment 4

[Chris Horry]

Fixed </b> - still being displayed wrongly however in this case.

Comment 5

[Martin Horwath]

Attachment: Non closing <font> also causing the same problem...

Comment 6

[Chris Horry]

Yep, error on my part.  Other browsers are more forgiving of mistakes in HTML
than Mozilla it seems (at least recently anyway).  Future feature idea would be
to highlight errors in HTML with the view source.

Comment 7

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

bad html bugs are very common lately, there is a bug for a html validation in
the browser.

verified

Comment 8

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

The bug for indicating HTML errors is bug 6211.