img with {display: table-cell} — is it a bug?

Question

I want to use the display: table-* CSS properties to format a list of photos. I believe that below is a \"correct\" implementation of it, in that there\'s nothi

Answer 1

The problem seems to be mostly due to the border-collapse. If you remove that, the alignment problem goes away. I can't seem to find any other discussion of this problem online but I have noticed bugs in the border-collapse: collapse algorithm many times in Firefox and Safari (lines that disappear/reappear as you scroll, etc). This appears to be just another bug in that algorithm.

You're are right however, that it is specific to the image, if you wrap the images in divs, the problem goes away:

    


    

        

            
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I've tested this in Firefox 3.1 in Ubuntu and XP, Firefox 3.5 in XP, Safari 4 in Wine and XP, and Chrome 3 in XP and they ALL exhibit errors in rendering the border-collapse. Only Firefox shows the image table-cell as one pixel low.

Opera 9.52 in XP oddly does not display the image at all. Opera 10.10 in XP behaves like the rest.

Perhaps there's something about the spec that causes so many browsers to interpret this way.