48052 - COLGROUP tag does not respond to CSS styling

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

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

Description

[Lars Fastrup]

It seems that the rendering engine does not know how to apply CSS styles to 
column groups specified by the HTML COLGROUP tag. Even IE supports this 
feature!!!! Mozilla can never claim to be 100% HTML4 and CSS1 standards 
compliant when such simple things are not implemented!!!

Here is my example HTML code snippet along with the CSS code snippet that tries 
to center the text in one table column and not in the other. But the text is 
left aligned in both columns.


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CSS code

colgroup.h1 { text-align:center; }
colgroup.h2 { text-align:left; }

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HTML code

<table width="100%" border="1">
  <caption>Title</caption>
  <colgroup class="h1"></colgroup>
  <colgroup class="h2"></colgroup>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>H1</th>
      <th>H2</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>test</td>
      <td>test</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>test</td>
      <td>test</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Read the W3C CSS Specification and you will find that text-align does not apply
to columns. Sorry.
   http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/

Comment 2

[Christine Hoffman]

Adding 'verifyme' keyword

Comment 3

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified invalid