User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 A table within a div with position:absolute within another div with position:absolute renders all its td elements inline. In other words, the cells within the table are no longer aligned in columns. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create an example file containing this code snippet: <div style=position:absolute><div style=position:absolute> <table> <tr><td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td></tr> <tr><td>cell2 long</td><td>cell3</td></tr> <tr><td>cell4</td><td>cell6 long</td></tr> </table> </div></div> 2. Run this Actual Results: +----------------------------------+ | .-------. .-------. | | | cell1 | | cell2 | | | `-------' `-------' | | .---------------. .-------. | | | cell3 is long | | cell6 | | | `---------------' `-------' | | .-------. .------------. | | | cell5 | | cell6 long | | | `-------' `------------' | `----------------------------------' Expected Results: +----------------------------------+ | .---------------. .------------. | | | cell1 | | cell2 | | | `---------------' `------------' | | .---------------. .------------. | | | cell3 is long | | cell6 | | | `---------------' `------------' | | .---------------. .------------. | | | cell5 | | cell6 long | | | `---------------' `------------' | `----------------------------------' This also happens in Mozilla.

Duplicate of/related to Core bug 228781 -> Core bug 201897?

Provided URL is no longer reachable, fetchable. Resolving as DUPLICATE of bug 201897