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| <p>In this table (modelled after mozilla.org template) the cells in |
| column two are requesting colspans of (2,3,2,6) respectively. Notice |
| that they all want to span more than one column (which means, in the case of |
| this table, all rows are requesting to span more columns than the |
| number of 'real' <code><TD></code> in any single rows [i.e., all rows in the top |
| table want to |
| span 9 cells, but the maximum number of <code><TD></code> in any row is |
| 8].</p><p>This condition leads to the 'white gap' (in builds of 5.0 for jun04 and before).</p> |
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| <TABLE BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"> |
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| <!-- 8 'real', 9 'requested' --> |
| <TR> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">1</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=2>2</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD">4</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">5</TD> |
| <TD >6</TD> |
| <TD >7</TD> |
| <TD >8</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">9</TD> |
| </TR> |
| |
| <!-- 7 'real', 9 'requested' --> |
| <TR> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">1</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=3>2</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">5</TD> |
| <TD >6</TD> |
| <TD >7</TD> |
| <TD >8</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">9</TD> |
| </TR> |
| |
| <!-- 7 'real', 9 'requested' --> |
| <TR> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">1</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=2>2</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD">4</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">5</TD> |
| <TD COLSPAN=2>6</TD> |
| <TD >8</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">9</TD> |
| </TR> |
| |
| <!-- 3 'real', 9 'requested' --> |
| <TR> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999" COLSPAN=6>1</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">7</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999" COLSPAN=2>8</TD> |
| </TR> |
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| <p>This is the same table as above, but instead the cells in column two |
| are requesting colspans of (1,2,1,5) respectively (i.e., excess requests have |
| been 'normalized' away). There is no more 'white gap'.</p> |
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| <TABLE BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"> |
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| <!-- 8 'real', 9 'requested' --> |
| <TR> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">1</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=1>2</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD">3</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">4</TD> |
| <TD >5</TD> |
| <TD >6</TD> |
| <TD >7</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">8</TD> |
| </TR> |
| |
| <!-- 7 'real', 9 'requested' --> |
| <TR> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">1</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=2>2</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">4</TD> |
| <TD >5</TD> |
| <TD >6</TD> |
| <TD >7</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">8</TD> |
| </TR> |
| |
| <!-- 7 'real', 9 'requested' --> |
| <TR> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">1</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD" COLSPAN=1>2</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD">3</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">4</TD> |
| <TD COLSPAN=2>5</TD> |
| <TD >7</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">8</TD> |
| </TR> |
| |
| <!-- 3 'real', 9 'requested' --> |
| <TR> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999" COLSPAN=5>1</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999">6</TD> |
| <TD BGCOLOR="#999999" COLSPAN=2>7</TD> |
| </TR> |
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