44485 - Weird table rendering

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 88243

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

Description

[Matthew Cline]

The Sealand government page has some weird page table problems.
They're caused by HTML like this:

  <table width="100% height="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">

Note that the "width" attribute doesn't have a closing double quote.
By itself, this leads to only midly strange behavior, but when used with
nested tables, it leads to something that looks like a verticaly split
frameset with all the content on the left side, nothing on the right
side, and the left side's scrollbar all the way over on  the right.

I'll attach the offending page in case the web site changes.

Comment 1

[Matthew Cline]

Attachment: Copy of www.sealandgov.com homepage

Comment 2

[Bernd Mielke]

This is a doctype issue, just add transitional doctype without loose.dtd and the
page renders fine.

Comment 3

[karnaze (gone)]

Reassigning to Harishd based on the last comment.

Comment 4

[harishd]

Attachment: Further reduced test case

Comment 5

[harishd]

I don't think this is anything to do with DOCTYPE.

Comment 6

[harishd]

The problem is in nsGenericHTMLElement::ParseValueOrPercentOrProportional()
method, where it assumes that the '%' is always found at the end of the 
attribute value. Therefore, values such as "100% height=" are converted into 
pixel rather than percentage.  The fix ( quirks only ) would be to identify the 
appropriate unit in the string. However, the unit should also be in the 
appropriate position,i.e., "100 height%" should have pixel unit than percentage.

Note: This is not a high priority bug. Putting on nsbeta3 radar anyway.

Comment 7

[harishd]

This bug has been marked "future" because we have determined that it is not 
critical for netscape6.0. If you feel this is an error, or if it blocks your 
work in some way -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration."

Comment 8

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

Dupe of bug 47755 (WONTFIX).

Comment 9

[Manoj]

could you also check out the table and general page renderering at 
http://www.answerpal.com

The orange border extends beyond the size of the monitor. when viewed with IE,
the page rendering is very compact and as desired.

One more point here, when no border is selected, border="0", IE puts a thin
border around the table, is this a deviation from the HTML spec? It makes the
tables look great.

Comment 10

[Manoj]

I forgot to add, I am using M0.9.2 Build: 2001062815

Comment 11

[Manoj]

Please view

http://www.rediff.com

Using Build Id: 2001071304

The orange outcrop shouldn't be there at the right hand of the page!

Comment 12

[harishd]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88243 ***