47841 - Problem displaying table with attribute dir="rtl"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24366

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

Description

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

<table dir="rtl"> shows correctly the first column on the right and the
last column on the left of the table (inverses normal direction).
However, all content also gets right-aligned. May be normal behavior
_except_ for the <caption> and the <th> elements, that should be rendered
with a center-alignement by default.

<table dir="rtl"> in addition doesn't apply the direction to the
<colgroup> element. First <colgroup> will start on the left instead of
starting on the right.

<colgroup> and stylesheets: {background-color: Black;color : Silver;}
While the background color gets applied, the color doesn't.

<table border="1" frame="rhs" rules="groups"> doesn't work. rules="cols"
however works.

Comment 1

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Attachment: HTML page that shows behavior of some advanced Table features

Comment 2

[Bernd Mielke]

[e-mail] - could you please read the Bug Writing Guidelines at 
                           
<http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html>
 to see the kinds of information we need in a bug report. 
Please report back with more information (like BuildID) after reading those
guidelines and consider using the Bugzilla Helper to report future bugs. 

The Helper can be found at 
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Thanks for your help in testing Mozilla.

Bernd

Comment 3

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Sorry for the glitch. The bug report was made after testing M17 for windows. The 
same problem still exists by using the latest build, 2000081708. From your 
comments, I take it, you have not been able to reproduce the problem. For me it 
is always reproducible with the mentioned builds. Be sure to view the attachment 
08/06/00 17:42 to see the problems.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

[e-mail] - thanks for your bug report :-) It seems very clear to 
me. I'm confirming this bug, although as it's "advanced" it might not get seen 
to for a while.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Christine Hoffman]

table rules="groups" problem is handled in bug #24113

Comment 6

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Adding keywords because the "advanced" in the subject doesn't mean it should not 
be cared of. We are talking here of supporting standards, not just fancy 
advanced features. 4xp because IE 5.x gets all described features right.

Comment 7

[Braden]

Erich: The problem with this bug report that is likely to keep people from
looking at it much is that it is too broad. I suggest you narrow the scope of
this bug to a single, specific issue. Then file additional reports on the other
issues your test page reveals (if those issues aren't already covered by
existing reports--note chrisd's comment).

Comment 8

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Ok, Braden. Thanks for your comment. Here we go. I reduce the topic to the rtl 
handling of the table.

Comment 9

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Ok, Braden. Thanks for your comment. Here we go. I reduce the topic to the rtl 
handling of the table.

Comment 10

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Attachment: New Testcase for dir="rtl"

Comment 11

[Christine Hoffman]

The latest issue seems to be the behavior of style with the 'rtl' attribute. 
Could this be a dup of #915 (style not fully implemented on COL, COLGROUP)?

Comment 12

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Chris, I'm not so sure. Maybe dependent. Actually the style gets layed out 
correctly, the problem is here only the direction. But you are right, the latest 
issue can be separated from the wrong alignement of cell content when using 
dir="rtl"

Comment 13

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Is 24366 a dupe of this bug? It does specifically mention headers and captions
as being the misbehaving elements.

Comment 14

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Scott you are right, it's a dupe. It even specifies problems with css text-align 
that I didn't notice.

Comment 15

[Braden]

4xp keyword is for parity with Navigator 4.x.

Comment 16

[Braden]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24366 ***

Comment 17

[Bernd Mielke]

This is indeed a dupe

Comment 18

[(no longer active)]

Mass-assigning the new rtl keyword to RTL-related (see bug 349193).