- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:15:46 -0700
- To: François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>
- Cc: CSS WG <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:01 AM, François REMY
<francois.remy.dev@outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this is not the right place for CSS questions, but I’ve a test case
> that works differently accross browsers and I’m totally unable to say what’s
> the expected result. The test case is the following one:
>
> table {height:50px;}
> tr
> td { position: relative; }
> div { position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; right: 0px;
> bottom: 0px; }
> ...
>
> In Opera & Chrome the DIV is sized as I would excect (50px wide, 50px tall)
> In IE, it’s positionned just fine, but has no height (50px wide, 1px tall)
> In FireFox, the position: relative of the TR is partly ignored (the div
> takes the whole viewport, but is still z-index-nested in the table cell;
> that one make no sense).
>
> My question is: Is that behavior expected to be undefined, or should I
> actually report bugs for this?
CSS 2.1 left the behavior of position:relative on table cells
undefined. The obvious result of that is that implementations remained
non-interoperable.
~TJ
Received on Thursday, 13 June 2013 13:16:33 UTC