Closed Bug 449760 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Use of tabs in <pre> in tables doesn't change the width of the surrounding <td>

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(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 411059

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(Reporter: addiemacgruer, Unassigned)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 If you try and use <pre> formatted text laid out in a table, for eg. poetry or lyrics, you might want to start lines with a tab, but Ffox doesn't make the <td> cell wide enough in that case. <table border="5"><tr><td><pre> Roses are red (tab)Violets are blue This is my third line (tab)Here is a long line starting with a tab which will overflow the table. </pre></td></tr></table> Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Incorporate the above bit of html into a web-page. Actual Results: Width of the <td> is only that of the text of the longest line, not the text and the whitespace. Expected Results: <td> should be as wide as the longest line, including its whitespace.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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