[webkit-help] Re-post: Rendering bug (ie & firefox does this well but webkit not). Re: Table rendering issue: Two-column layout table with first column nowrap and second column of width 100% breaks, if there's a row with a column with colspan=2 in it with a wide t

Thu Sep 2 08:20:58 PDT 2010

Hi guys, I'll repeat this email of 20 july again.

The reason I posted it is because it reflects what I understand to be an
aspect of Webkit's table renderer, that makes it impossible to make
two-column layouts with inlined sections with a one-column layout.
     And what's more peculiar to it, is that the way the renderer makes this
impossible, is peculiar. Inlining real basic sections with a one-column
layout works, but as soon as the section contains a table, the outer
two-column layout's column widths mess up.

It seems to me that HTML/Webkit "should" be able to do this. It works in IE
and Firefox.

What do you say?

Thanks,
Mikael

2010/7/20 Mikael <mikael.trash at gmail.com>

> The break is manifested as that the two-column layout gets a 50/50 width
> division instead of the one desired.
>
> This is the second time in some while I run into this problem, and I found
> no solution as of yet, even after an extensive search for a solution.
>
> The point with not splitting the outer table in two, is to get the same
> column width on the two-column layout both below and after the colspan=2.
>
> The point with a two-column layout where the first column has nowrap and
> the second one width 100%, is to present form fields and alike in a
> consistent manner. I can't use PX or EM widths on the left column, as
> different browsers give different width to that column based on the width of
> the text.
>
> The reason not to use DIV:s do describe these tables is because i need
> IE6&7 support and would want to use the same HTML and CSS for both
> browsers.
>
> Do you see any way of getting this running in webkit?
>
>
> The HTML below provides an example, you'll find it currently at
> http://www.webdevout.net/test?015 . It works well in Firefox 3.6 and IE7
> but not in Chromium nor Safari:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 Strict//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html><head>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
> charset=ISO-8859-5"><style>
>
> .outerTable tr td { border: 1px solid red; }
> .innerTable tr td { border: 1px solid green; }
>  </style></head>
> <body>
> <table class="outerTable">
> <tbody>
>
> <tr><td>hhhhh</td><td style="width: 100%;">ggggggg</td></tr>
>
> <tr><td colspan="2"><table class="innerTable">
> <tbody>
>
> <tr><td>9</td><td>cccccccccc</td><td>dddddddddd</td><td>aaaaaaaaaaaaa</td><td>bbbbbbbbb</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr>
>
> <tr><td>fffffff</td><td><span class="panelVisible">eeeee</span></td></tr>
>
> </tbody></table></body></html>
>
> Many thanks,
> Mikael
>
>
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