From a posting to netscape.public.mozilla.layout: From: greg@apple2.com Tue 7/13 10:42AM Subject: Gecko, ROW/COLSPAN=0, and appropriate error recovery? I understand that Netscape's 5.0 browser will be using the Gecko engine which reportedly supports all of HTML 4.0. Can anyone test the Gecko engine for me with the following markup? <TABLE BORDER=1> <TR> <TD ROWSPAN=0>1</TD> <TD COLSPAN=0>2</TD> </TR><TR> <TD>5</TD> <TD>6</TD> </TR> </TABLE> It should draw a table looking like: +-----------+ | 1 | 2 | | |-------| | | 5 | 6 | +-----------+ since a ROWSPAN or COLSPAN of zero is defined to span all remaining rows or columns of the table, respectively. The current crop treat ROWSPAN and COLSPAN as having a minimum value of 1, which creates: +-------+ | 1 | 2 | |---+---| | 5 | 6 | +-------+ There's that, and also I need to know, if it supports these zero values correctly, what error correction does it perform if you have a cell which is to the right of a zero-spanned cell, such as: <TABLE BORDER=1> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=0>1</TD> <TD>3</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>4</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>6</TD> </TR> </TABLE> or, even worse, if you have two COLSPAN=0s in the same row, or if ROWSPANned with COLSPAN=0 and a subsequent row has a cell that has to occur in a spanned column: <TABLE BORDER=1> <TR> <TD>1</TD> <TD ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=0>2</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>4</TD><TD>6</TD> </TR> </TABLE> Otherwise, what would be the best way to handle such an error if encountered? Treat the zero-spanned cell like an overlapping on top of the columns to the right similar to other multi-spanned cell errors? I'm working on a program which needs to address this problem if it is at all to support zero input values for spannings, translating them to positive values intelligently. Thankfully there is no similar problem for ROWSPAN=0. I've been looking through the whole HTML 4.0 specification and can't find anything addressing this possibility, thus no recommendations for error recovery. I'll see about putting up a page on this tonight. If this is the wrong netscape.public.mozilla.* group, please direct followups to the right one, but keep comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html in the crossposting. I'm presuming the layout group deals with tables. (Since I set Netscape to use MT-NewsWatcher for news:, I can't access netscape.*, not even with snews:.)

The exact wording in the spec (HTML4, 11.2.6) is: rowspan = number [CN] This attribute specifies the number of rows spanned by the current cell. The default value of this attribute is one ("1"). The value zero ("0") means that the cell spans all rows from the current row to the last row of the table. colspan = number [CN] This attribute specifies the number of columns spanned by the current cell. The default value of this attribute is one ("1"). The value zero ("0") means that the cell spans all columns from the current column to the last column of the table.

Marking [TESTCASE].

*** Bug 11617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Spoke to karnaze during bug triage today. Moving to M11. Not an M10 blocker.

Moving to M13.

Fixed with latest checkin.

rowspan/colspan=0 now only works according to HTML 4 in strict mode. There are pages relying on the behavior where a value <= 0 becomes 1.

Verified strict and transitional behavior across platform with 9/14 builds. Fixed in strict mode. Transitional works like Nav

I am trying to resolve this bug on my page here: https://www.xerago.com/solutions I set the default value of attribute as one ("1"). Still the problem exists.

I am trying to resolve this bug on my page here: <a href="https://www.xerago.com/solutions">maximize customer value</a> I set the default value of attribute as one ("1"). Still the problem exists.