[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 21673] help text left aligned instead of right

Tue Oct 2 11:00:34 PDT 2012

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21673

Robert Hogan <robert at webkit.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #3 from Robert Hogan <robert at webkit.org>  2012-10-02 11:00:57 PST ---
This is a WebKit quirk, see Source/WebCore/css/StyleResolver.cpp:

void StyleResolver::adjustRenderStyle(RenderStyle* style, RenderStyle* parentStyle, Element *e)
{
    ASSERT(parentStyle);

    // Cache our original display.
    style->setOriginalDisplay(style->display());

    if (style->display() != NONE) {
        // If we have a <td> that specifies a float property, in quirks mode we just drop the float
        // property.
        // Sites also commonly use display:inline/block on <td>s and <table>s. In quirks mode we force
        // these tags to retain their display types.
        if (!m_checker.strictParsing() && e) {
            if (e->hasTagName(tdTag)) {
                style->setDisplay(TABLE_CELL);
                style->setFloating(NoFloat);
            } else if (e->hasTagName(tableTag))
                style->setDisplay(style->isDisplayInlineType() ? INLINE_TABLE : TABLE);
        }

The problem goes away if you add:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

to the test. So I believe this bug is invalid - WebKit is conformant if the site requires it.

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