Bug 7930 – Adding a CAPTION to a TABLE, disables COL/COLGROUP as selectors

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: Tables

[leif halvard silli]

When a table contains the CAPTION element, Safari ignores all styling of COL and COLGROUP.

How to recreate the bug:
1. Create a valid 3 column TABLE containing the CAPTION element. (Doctype HTML 4.0.1 Strict)
2. For it to be valid, CAPTION must follow immediately after the TABLE start tag.
    Her is a mini example: 
    [TABLE][CAPTION]caption[/CAPTION][COL][COL][COL][TR][TD]A[TD]B[TD]C[/TABLE]
3. Add styling to the COL element. Add a width and a background color!
    TABLE{background:red;} COL{width:10em;background:green;}
4. >> RESULT: Safari displays the whole table in RED and ignores the COL styling.
    >> SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED: the columns should have been green and 10em wide.

WORKAROUND (sort of): if one moves the CAPTION _after_ the COL/COLGROUP tags, then the table will be displayed correctly in Safari. However, this will make the HTML code invalid.

This is a duplicate of bug 5822. You can download a nightly build of WebKit from http://nightly.webkit.org/ and verify that the bug is fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5822 ***

[leif halvard silli]

I'm sorry to have wasted your (and mine) time with a solved bug.  

I performed a regular search for 'caption' and '<caption>' before filing this bug, and it only yielded 2 findings, none of which included - and still not include - bug 5822.

It turns out that to find bug 5822, I would have had to open the Advanced Search page _and_ turn on the option to search for status VERIFIED bugs ...

I hope those that govern the Bugzilla take note ...