bug in Opera8 on colgroups

I discovered that Opera 8 will ignore a colgroup like this:

<colgroup span="2" class="strawberry"></colgroup>

where it will happily render one like this:

<colgroup span="2" align="center"></colgroup>

IE handles both correctly, but then it can't handle transparent
pngs...

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Roedy Green wrote:

I discovered that Opera 8 will ignore a colgroup like this:

colgroup span="2" class="strawberry"></colgroup

Do you have CSS defined with a class selector .strawberry? Which CSS
properties are you using?
Are you aware that the CSS 2 specification restricts column/column
groups to the properties
border
background
width
visibility
? See
<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4>
So perhaps what you regard as a bug is simply the use of a property
which does not apply to column groups.
Hard to tell without seeing your CSS rule(s).

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Roedy Green <look-on (AT) mindprod (DOT) com.invalid> wrote:

I discovered that Opera 8 will ignore a colgroup like this:

colgroup span="2" class="strawberry"></colgroup

In what way does Opera 8 not render it correctly?

where it will happily render one like this:

colgroup span="2" align="center"></colgroup

Does your CSS by any chance look something like:
..strawberry {text-align: center;}

Have you read the CSS spec to see whcih properties apply to columns?
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html
Have you noticed that it's a very short list.

IE handles both correctly, but then it can't handle transparent
pngs...

IE incorrectly applies the text-align property to columns.
Mozilla does not support the align attribute.
Opera does not apply text-align but does support align.

Steve

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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Roedy Green wrote:

IE handles both correctly,

This isn't a write-only newsgroup, you know. I find it hard to
believe that anyone who reads this group for even a little while could
post with a straight face that IE does something "correctly" which a
web-compatible browser does not.

"bug", indeed! Read the goddamned interworking specifications, and
cite them in your grounds for claiming that you've found a bug. If IE
does what you wanted, rather than what you asked for, as it so often
does, then the bug is in IE.