80474 - Tables are rendered with extra space below table rows in XHTML versus HTML 4.01

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22274

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Rick Kasparek]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010323
BuildID:    2001032319

If you take a simple table with 2 graphics (one table, 2 table rows, each with
one graphic) and simply change the header from HTML 4.01, to XHTML, the table is
displayed with extra spaces (almost as if mozilla is interpreting a <br> after
the image) below the images.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a simple page:
   <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">
   <html>
   <head><title>test.html</title></head>
   <body>
   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="50"
    align="Center">
     <tbody>
       <tr>
         <td><img src="50x50.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0"
             border="0" width="50" height="25"></td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td><img src="50x50.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0"
             border="0" width="50" height="25"></td>
       </tr>
     </tbody>
   </table>
  </body>
</html>

2. Using the same construction, simply replace the doctype with:
   <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

3. The two tables, although marked the same - render differently.

Actual Results:  The two tables, although the HTML is the same - render
differently, depending on which doctype is used.

Expected Results:  I would expect the results to be the same.

Comment 1

[Jason Johnston]

Standards-compliant mode (triggered by the doctype) renders space for text
descenders on inline elements -- try setting img {display:block} to get the
quirks-mode behavior.

Moz does this correctly.  Invalid.

This issue seems to come up a lot, is there an FAQ for common standards issues
like this?

Comment 2

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

See bug 22274 (resolved invalid) for explanation and workarounds.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22274 ***