98017 - COLSPAN does not seem to work, ignores middle column for me.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Ben Greear]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-pre4 i686; en-US; rv:0.9)
Gecko/20010505
BuildID:    2001050521

The table in the middle of this page should have the text wider
than the graphics.  However, it renders so that the text column takes
up as much space as the graphics column, so there is lots of wasted
whitespace.  I think the problem has something to do with also setting
the width/height on the table columns/rows.  Bozilla 9.3 works better
than NS 6.0, but it is still not as good as IE or NS 4.7

See the URL here for more information:
http://www.candelatech.com


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://www.candelatech.com
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Layout is funky.

Expected Results:  Layout be good.

I can re-write any of this HTML if it's an HTML bug.  However, NS 6.0
and Mozilla are the only browsers in which I see this problem...

Comment 1

[Michael Kaufmann]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Michael Kaufmann]

I've attached a testcase. This bug is very interesting. While the page is 
loading, the page is rendered as intended. But as soon as the page is loaded 
completely, the page gets reflowed and after that the middle column is shorter 
than the spacer image in it.

To see this, you have to reload the page while pressing shift or with a clean 
cache. You can also load the testpage into the editor to see this.

PS: The component for this bug should be "Layout" and the OS should be "All" 
(I'm seeing this on Windows).

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To layout

Comment 4

[David Emmerson]

Attachment: modified testcase

Comment 5

[David Emmerson]

Added a slightly modified testcase. Setting width="..." on the <td>s which
contain the col forming spacer images stops the reflow.
(Also added doctype and a few alt attribs, but tested the widths seperately)

win32 2001083103

Comment 6

[basic]

URL/testcases works for me using build 2001082909 win32

Comment 7

[Ben Greear]

I changed the URL to put in a fixed <td> width.  This 'fixes' the
problem as noted by one of the people to look at it.  I believe
the first test case does not have that tweak, while the second
one does...

Thanks,
Ben

Comment 8

[Michael Kaufmann]

I can still see this bug (using build 2001083103 win32). Please use the first
testcase in attachment 48025 [details] and compare it to the second testcase in attachment
48044 [details]. Both testcases should look identically.

Could someone confirm this bug and mark it as NEW?

Comment 9

[basic]

I don't see any problem with the first or second testcase. The second testcase
as you say works as you expect. The first testcase doesn't seems to work because
http://www.candelatech.com/images/spacer.gif doesn't exist. I'm inclined to mark
this invalid.

Comment 10

[Michael Kaufmann]

It's really the missing spacer.gif that's causing this bug! Mozilla replaces 
broken images with the ALT text. Because there's no ALT text for spacer.gif, 
it's just replaced by nothing. Of course this depends on the handling of broken 
images (see bug 41924). I agree, this bug can be marked INVALID.

Comment 11

[basic]

resolving invalid