Bug 53587 – Draw borders around tables or not?

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: CSS

[Berend-Jan Wever]

Viewing the following HTML/CSS in various browsers yields varying results. Firefox and Opera seem to agree on the layout, so I assume WebKit and MSIE are doing it wrong.


H
T <span style="display:table; border: 5px solid red;"></span>
M <table style="border: 5px solid green;"></table>
L <table style="display:inline-block; border: 5px solid green;"></table>
5

WebKit draws a border around all empty tables, so you see a red and two green blocks between the letters "H T M L 5".
Firefox/Opera/MSIE do not render these borders; Firefox and Opera do render borders on a table element with its 'display' css style set to 'inline-block', so you see one green box between L and 5. MSIE doesn't render any borders and only shows the letters. In addition, MSIE ignores the 'display: table' style on a span and 'display: inline-block' style on a table, rendering both as if no 'display' style is applied.

[Ahmad Saleem]

I am unable to reproduce this bug using attached test case mentioned in Comment 0, I changed it to following JS Fiddle:

Link - https://jsfiddle.net/0cjnk7x8/show

All browsers (Chrome Canary 106, Firefox Nightly 104 and Safari 15.6 on macOS 12.5) renders the test case same.

I think this can be marked as "RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED". Although, if I am testing incorrectly then please retest accordingly. Thanks!

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/97488519>

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Looks like WebKit behavior didn't change, and Firefox changed. So INVALID is a slightly more accurate resolution.