8917 - {compat} Vertical white space inserted into top of column

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Crysgem]

Apprunner Build ID: 1999062508

The contents of the leftmost table column (which by all representation extends
for the length of the page) are displaced to a seemingly arbitrary vertical
offset from the larger portion of the page, lengthening the entire document. The
expected result: that the contents of that leftmost column would be aligned at
the top of the page, beside the main content.

I am instantiating with the attention of py8ieh=[e-mail] and
[e-mail], for the great mass of HTMLTable bugs of a similarity to
this that were observed are well known to they.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 8919 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

[TESTCASE]
The culprit is the second image, which is given a width of 128 pixels, in a
column of 120 pixels. It is CORRECTLY  made to go under the first image, which
is floated left and is very tall. Since the text comes after the second image,
which is *not* floated, it is CORRECTLY pushed down a long way.

Marking bug INVALID, as there is no bug.

[e-mail]: It would be VERY useful to us if instead of filing bugs
which simply list a web page and what the problem looks like, you narrowed the
problem down to a particular, reproducible, issue. For example, in this case, a
very quick persual of the document's markup shows what the problem is. The
first cell is specified like this:

  <TD width="120" align="left" valign="top" background="images/ssbkgr1.gif">
  <IMG SRC="images/spacer.gif" align="left" width="1" HEIGHT="575" BORDER="0">
  <IMG SRC="images/spacer.gif" valign="top" HEIGHT="1" width="128" BORDER="0">

It is easy to spot that the column is given width="120", while the second
picture is given width="128", and thus won't fit.

Comment 3

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Verified Invalid