Closed Bug 6163 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

<spacer> in tables ignored?

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Tables
Platform:
x86
Windows 95
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: kairo, Assigned: karnaze)

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Details

In a lot of tables at my page (URL:"start.at/kairo") I use a <spacer type=horizontal size=3> tag at the beginning or end of a cell. Communicator 4.51 does show it the right way (MSIE 4.01 does not - it ignores all <spacer> tags) but M5 doesn't show those <spacer> tags (it displays all other <spacer> tags the right way, even between two <img>s in one table cell). You can view those tags at my page in "lcars_top.html" (frame on top of the page) and "lcars_bottom.html" (frame at the bottom of the page). (As my other bug reports, I think it's an "all OS"/"all platforms" bug but I#m only usig Win95)
Can somebody please tell me what a spacer tag is. It is not in the html 4 spec.
I don't know the html 4 spec but I feared this tag is not in there (perhaps that's why MSIE 4.01 doesn't display it). On the other hand, even M5 does show it correctly if not on the border of a html table cell. The tag itself is simple: <spacer type=horizontal size=x> creates x pixels of horizontal space, <spacer type=vertical size=x> does the same in vertical direction. Watch it work on my pages (http://start.at/kairo) with Communicator 4.xx or, in most cases, even with M5!
<SPACER> is a Netscape Extension tag.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
I don't see the problem. I have constructed a test case that looks ok as well. If you can provide an additional test case that has the problem, please reopen the bug. <html> <body> Resize the window so there is no line wrapping <table border> <tr> <td>10 pixels after<spacer type=horizontal size=10></td> <td>10 pixels after<spacer type=horizontal size=10>foo</td> <td><spacer type=horizontal size=10>10 pixels before</td></tr> </table> </body> </html>
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Okay. The only problem I can see viewing my tables with the newest release is the difference between Mozilla/5.0 and Communicator in handling too big tables. If some table's columns need more space by their column width than the table width is actually, this problem really appears. Communicator shows spacers even in this case, Mozilla does not show them in this case. So for me, that's no real bug, it's appears to be only a differend in handling a "false" HTML code. I'll use Mozilla to check my site for "too big" tables and correct my html programming...
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