617243 - table with rowspan layout is bad

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alysson Bortoli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11

text inside a table cell with "rowspan" does not wrap properly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a table with 4 cells and 2 rows
2. add rowspan="2" for a cell
Actual Results:  
render is not right

Comment 1

[Alysson Bortoli]

fixed using CSS white-space: normal; applying it for table, tr, td or problematic siblings.

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

The problem is caused by the nowrap attribute on this ancestor element:
<td align="left" valign="top" width="600" nowrap="nowrap">

It is mapped to white-space:nowrap which is inherited.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#white-space-prop

Gecko handles this differently in Quirk mode though, see
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_Quirks_Mode_Behavior
(Under "Tables" - the bullet referring to bug 277232)

If you remove the <!DOCTYPE ...> the document will be rendered in Quirks mode.
Or you could remove the nowrap attribute.