65206 - alt text gets surrounded by setting border="1" on img tags!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 11011

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[HJ]

WinNT4/Mozilla build 2001011104

Reproducable   : always
Current result : border surrounding alt text
Expected result: no border set on alt text, but on the table cell

Steps to reproduce:
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1 - go to preferences and block images
2 - use the link of the attached testcase
3 - and take a look at the alt text

Both IE and Opera don't have this problem, would be nice if Mozilla can do the same.

Comment 1

[HJ]

1 - should read us table with missing image

Comment 2

[HJ]

Attachment: Example of table with broken image load

Comment 3

[HJ]

At start the table builds up the right way. But then some code tells it to
redraw with the alt text, and then the layout is wrong.

Comment 4

[HJ]

I can reproduce this by image blocking in preferences AND with broken images!
Something did go wrong with copy paste, sorry for that.

Comment 5

[Bernd]

Attachment: testcase without tables

Comment 6

[Bernd]

This has nothing to do with tables but with block handling, reassigning to
buster, I think this is a dupe of bug 55046.

Comment 7

[HJ]

First of all this bug is about the border around the alt text. There should NOT
be a border around the alt text at all in those examples. Can that be fixed with
a place holder for images?

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

cc hixie

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Technically this is not a bug -- the image element has been told to have a 
border when it is a link, and the style rule in question doesn't worry about 
whether or not the image was actually loaded or not.

(Jesse: Thanks again for cc'ing me)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11011 ***

Comment 10

[HJ]

That might be so Ian, but A: it makes a hell of a mess of table layout and B: I
can't find a W3C statement that the ALT text should inherit the border of broken
images!

Comment 11

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

A: so don't break your images. :-P If you are relying on a particular layout
you are doomed anyway -- any user can set a personal stylesheet which changes 
page layout, or they could change fonts, or colours, or anything.

B: It doesn't 'inherit' it. The IMG element is still there, it's just that 
instead of being shown as an image it is shown as text. Since the applicable
style rule doesn't care about that and just sets the border on the IMG element,
the border appears regardless of the state of the image.

Comment 12

[HJ]

Then I can only say I love the way IE and Opera are doing this kind of work.

Comment 13

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Well, except for their leaving of the box, I agree. The 'alt' attribute is
an *alternative* representation -- it's not a title or something.

Don't worry, we'll fix this!!!

Comment 14

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

QA contact update

Comment 15

[James Green]

Verified dup.