4 <p>In this table (modeled after mozilla.org template) the cells in
5 column two are requesting colspans of (
2,
3,
2,
6) respectively. Notice
6 that they all want to span more than one column (which means, in the case of
7 this table, all rows are requesting to span more columns than the
8 number of 'real'
<code><TD
></code> in any single rows [i.e., all rows in the top
10 span
9 cells, but the maximum number of
<code><TD
></code> in any row is
11 8].
</p><p>This condition leads to the 'white gap' (in builds of
5.0 for jun04 and before).
</p>
13 <TABLE BORDER=
1 CELLPADDING=
0 CELLSPACING=
0 WIDTH=
"100%">
15 <!-- 8 'real', 9 'requested' -->
17 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">1</TD>
18 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=
2>2</TD>
19 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#DDDDDD">4</TD>
20 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">5</TD>
24 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">9</TD>
27 <!-- 7 'real', 9 'requested' -->
29 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">1</TD>
30 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=
3>2</TD>
31 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">5</TD>
35 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">9</TD>
38 <!-- 7 'real', 9 'requested' -->
40 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">1</TD>
41 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=
2>2</TD>
42 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#DDDDDD">4</TD>
43 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">5</TD>
46 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">9</TD>
49 <!-- 3 'real', 9 'requested' -->
51 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999" COLSPAN=
6>1</TD>
52 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">7</TD>
53 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999" COLSPAN=
2>8</TD>
58 <p>This is the same table as above, but instead the cells in column two
59 are requesting colspans of (
1,
2,
1,
5) respectively (i.e., excess requests have
60 been 'normalized' away). There is no more 'white gap'.
</p>
62 <TABLE BORDER=
1 CELLPADDING=
0 CELLSPACING=
0 WIDTH=
"100%">
64 <!-- 8 'real', 9 'requested' -->
66 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">1</TD>
67 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=
1>2</TD>
68 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#DDDDDD">3</TD>
69 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">4</TD>
73 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">8</TD>
76 <!-- 7 'real', 9 'requested' -->
78 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">1</TD>
79 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=
2>2</TD>
80 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">4</TD>
84 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">8</TD>
87 <!-- 7 'real', 9 'requested' -->
89 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">1</TD>
90 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=
1>2</TD>
91 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#DDDDDD">3</TD>
92 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">4</TD>
95 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">8</TD>
98 <!-- 3 'real', 9 'requested' -->
100 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999" COLSPAN=
5>1</TD>
101 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999">6</TD>
102 <TD BGCOLOR=
"#999999" COLSPAN=
2>7</TD>