60118 - Table, transitional dtd, extra whitespace between rows

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 57371

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Eric Pollmann]

In the navigation bar at the top of apple.com (and all pages under that domain),
there is extra whitespace between the rows that does not appear in Nav 4.x or
IE.  The table explicitly specifies no whitespace, like this:

<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0">

This works in IE, Nav 4.x, and Gecko as long as no DTD is specified.  Is this
whitespace by design per some spec, or is it an error?  If it is by design, how
can the web designer get around the problem?

Comment 1

[Eric Pollmann]

Attachment: reduced test case

Comment 2

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

The space comes from the boxes inside the cells--not the cells themselves. As
per the CSS2 spec, the initial value for vertical-align in baseline--not bottom.
The designer can get around the problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57371 ***

Comment 3

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Verified dupe; Apple's site now renders properly.

Comment 4

[dsouza]

The white space does not show up if you use the DTD for 4.0, but does 
show up if you use the DTD for 4.01.