[webkit-dev] Table rendering and colspans

Thu May 27 12:46:19 PDT 2010

In general our strategy for table rendering is to match whatever Internet Explorer does.

Try your table test cases in IE for Windows in both quirks mode (no doctype) and strict mode (<!doctype html>) and see what IE does.  Assuming IE's rendering makes sense, that's probably what we want to do as well.

dave

On May 27, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Fady Samuel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a quick question (*crosses fingers*) about colspans in webkit. I've attached a simple example, t8_simple. In this example, we have two rows. One with one cell with a colspan of 5, and the other has two cells, the first having a colspan of 1, and the second having a colspan of 3. Thus, we have an "empty" slot in the in grid on the second row. In webkit, this introduces an extra gap at the end of the second row corresponding to the cell spacing between the second cell and the "empty" cell. This gap does not appear on Firefox or Opera.
> 
> I've found yet another inconsistency (see attached t9_simple). As you increase colspan on the first cell, in webkit the gap in the second row grows by a pixel or two. Firefox remains unchanged. In Opera, the whole table width increases. What is the "correct" behavior?  
> 
> I'm currently reworking chunks of the table rendering code for performance reasons so it would be nice to know if these are legitimate table rendering bugs that should be ironed out or the current webkit behavior is good.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fady Samuel
> <t8_simple.html><t9_simple.html>