82452 - Spacer tag not recognized in TD element

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect, P2)

Description

[Chris Petersen]

Build: 2001052210
Platforms: All
Expected results: No white gaps in table
What I got: A white gap in table is displayed for each TD that contains a spacer 
tag. 

Steps to reproduce:

1) Go to hp.com

2) On home page, notice the section called "solutions for".
White gaps in table are displayed

Comment 1

[Chris Petersen]

Attachment: reduce test

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Changing to waterson

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

Attachment: Using nbsp entity rather than spacer tag - problem gone

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

For some reason, the HP page renders fine in NS 6.0.1 without any modifications.

Comment 5

[doctor__j]

*** Bug 83086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Gilles Durys]

<spacer> is not an HTML4 tag so I don't think that is is (or will) be supported.

Comment 7

[José Jeria]

The SPACER-tag works fine in Mozilla 0.9.
If this is not supported, shouldn't you be able to see the BGCOLOR?
Or will you have to have a tranpararent gif to see the background color?

/Jose Jeria

Comment 8

[frank.mustermann]

  oder   won't help on very small table cells aka width="20" height="1"

Comment 9

[Chris Petersen]

The HP home page is rendered correctly in the June 18th build. The code shows
spacer is still used on the page. Did this get fixed somehow ?

Comment 10

[Chris Waterson]

Yay! Maybe it was random table quirk fu that got introduced with hyatt's style
changes? Anyway, I'll mark as WORKSFORME...

Comment 11

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified works for me in the June 18th build.