50472 - height property on a nested table with percentages doesn't always work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32205

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[Sjoerd Visscher]

(There are a lot of bugs concerning height and tables, but I couldn't find one 
which addressed this problem. Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Using CSS, height:100% (or any other percentage) doesn't work on a table that 
is nested inside another, and the height is not specified directly on the outer 
TD.

This sounds like a wrong interpretation of:
"If the height of the containing block is not specified explicitly (i.e., it 
depends on content height), the value is interpreted like 'auto'."
This sentence contradicts itself a little bit. 'not specified explicitly' is 
not the same as 'depends on content height'.

Current practice in other browsers (i.e. IE) is:
"If the height of the containing block depends on content height, the value is 
interpreted like 'auto'."

The attachment should make things clearer.

Comment 1

[Sjoerd Visscher]

Attachment: Examples of the bug.

Comment 2

[Sjoerd Visscher]

Found the bug myself, sorry for the spam.
Now please take a look again at bug 32205.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32205 ***

Comment 3

[Stephen Koren]

vrfy dupe