735065 - Table and table-cell pseudo-elements don't respect absolute positioning relative to their parent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63895

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Phil LaPier]

Attachment: bug.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.54 Safari/535.19

Steps to reproduce:

Created a table with two children as relatively positioned table-cells and with pseudo elements which are absolutely positioned using top, left, bottom, right. See the example here: http://jsfiddle.net/plapier/zH8yC/


Actual results:

The pseudo-element gets positioned relatively to the parent table.


Expected results:

The pseudo-element should have been positioned relatively to the parent table-cell.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Phil, thanks for reporting this!  We're working on fixing this, but it requires some ... interesting changes to table layout to make this work.