47163 - Paragraphs in COLSPANs of prop. COLs may lead to corrupt tables

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Matthias Kerkhoff]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.74 [en] (WinNT; U)
BuildID:    2000073120

If a table contains a paragraph of text, which is inside a COLSPAN of to columns 
with proportional width, table layout is incorrect and reflow problems occur.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the testcase
2. Enlarge your browsers width until the second line is about 70% of the browser 
window
3. Enlarge the window width more

Actual Results:  4. Suddenly, the text is displayed in one large line (which has 
a width of about 170%).							

Expected Results:  Reflow should happen smoothly (not from L1:100%,L2:70% to 
L1:170% !)
The table should further honor its given width (100%)							

There _seem_ to be the following preconditions for this to happen (pleas 
verify):
- The text must be inside a <P>
- The <P> must be inside a COLSPANned cell 
- The columns of the COLSPAN must have a proportional col width (i.e. xxx*)
- The problem always happens when the paragraph has two lines of text, the first 
one wrapped at 100% and the second one filled up to about 70%. You can add more 
words to the paragraph of the testcase to move the point where the problem 
occurs.

Comment 1

[Matthias Kerkhoff]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Tomer Brisker]

Confirmed on Linux, Changing OS to All.

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

No time left for this for beta2.  If need be, we can relnote it, but it seems 
like somewhat of an edge case (if not a dup).

Comment 4

[Marc Attinasi]

Denying beta3 nomination: edge case, we should relnote.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

It seems unclear to me whether this bug requires either of a "developer" or 
"user" release note for Netscape 6 RTM. If anyone feels it does, can they please 
draft one and then nominate with the relnote-user or relnote-devel strings in 
the Status Whiteboard.

Thanks :-)

Gerv

Comment 6

[karnaze (gone)]

Fixed with latest checkin.

Comment 7

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

QA contact update

Comment 8

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

 Marking verified on 2001-07-27-00-0.9.2 build