[CSS21] 'display: table-cell' width, border-collapse and fixed table-layout algorithm issues, questions

Hello,


http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110111/html4/margin-right-applies-to-001.htm
(RC5)


http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/html4/margin-right-applies-to-001.htm


http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/microsoft/submitted/Chapter_8/margin-right-applies-to-001.xht


This testcase may have inadvertently stumbled on border-collapse, fixed
table layout and rendering width issues.

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Firefox 3.6.13 and Chrome 9.0.597.98 will report

div#wrapper's computed width of 200px

div#table's computed width of 195px
(half of the orange 10px border will count in the width of the
border-collapsed table [1])

div#cell's computed width of 190px

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Opera 11.01 (build 1190) will report

div#wrapper's computed width of 200px

div#table's computed width of 200px

div#cell's computed width of 185px

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Konqueror 4.6 will report

div#wrapper's computed width of 200px

div#table's computed width of 200px

div#cell's computed width of 190px

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Why div#cell does not occupy 200px to begin with? I really do not get this.

The steps to apply for an 'width: auto' table in the fixed table layout do
not seem to apply here:

"a cell in the first row with a value other than 'auto' for the 'width'
property determines the width for that column"
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#fixed-table-layout


If div#cell should occupy 200px, then the table computed width should be
205px and, then, therefore at least half of the orange border should
overlap half of the blue border (since #table has overflow: visible by
default).

I think browsers should not even show a blue border in that testcase; the
blue border should be overlapped by the orange border.

What am I missing here? Thank you for your assistance.

[1]:
"Note that in this model, the width of the table includes half the table
border."
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#collapsing-borders

regards, Gérard
+CC: Arron Eicholz
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Received on Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:53:18 UTC