63082 - Bad TD width judgement

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Michael T. Babcock]

I've noticed that on several pages (most notibly, the bugzilla helper referenced
above), Mozilla likes to make a TD unnecessarily wide.  In the case of the above
page, if I have my browser set with 12pt fonts, I need at least a 900px wide
window to view the page without horizontal scrollbars.  When I make it smaller
(say, 800px), and slide the scrollbar to the right to see what is requiring the
window to be so wide, the first two paragraphs of black text fill the width of
the (virtual) browser page, but the rest have a good 1" magin on the right,
making them legible without scrolling left & right.  This may just be a design
problem on this page, but I've seen it elsewhere as well, and see no reason that
one <P> section should be wrapped to its share of ~900px when the next is only
taking its share of ~800px.

Comment 1

[Michael T. Babcock]

Same effect in Communicator 4.76

Comment 2

[James Green]

This Is Not A Bug[tm].

What you see here is several issues. One is that apart from the top logo banner,
the page is encased in a single table. This means that the table cell on the
right will be the width of the widest content element within it. That happens to
the the DOCTYPE declarations given to activate the two major rendering modes in
gecko. Both these are <code> elements and will appear monospaced exactly how
they are written in the html source - in this example on one line, and this is
pushing the right-hand-side quite far a way to the right. When the window is
pulled back, the result is a horizontal scrollbar to view the <code> text.

It is certainly correct behaviour as far as I can tell. Marking INVALID, however
if the reporter can show other urls which produce similar behaviour he believes
really is not right, then please reopen this bug by all means.

Comment 3

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

QA contact update

Comment 4

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

 Marking as verified.. Its a invalid bug

Build ID: 2001051015
Platfoem: RedHat Linux 7.0