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Bug 17690 - colSpan should not be "limited to only non-negative numbers greater than zero" (browsers don't throw when assigning 0)
Summary: colSpan should not be "limited to only non-negative numbers greater than zero...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-04 08:56 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-19 19:47 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-04 08:56:33 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dom-tdth-colspan
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dom-tdth-colspan

Comment:
colSpan should not be "limited to only non-negative numbers greater than zero"
(browsers don't throw when assigning 0)

Posted from: 85.227.152.47 by simonp@opera.com
User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7.3; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.64
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2012-07-04 09:55:05 UTC 
and default value should be 1
Comment 2 contributor 2012-07-18 17:56:55 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18281 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-08-09 22:27:07 UTC 
Do you have any test cases here?
Comment 4 Simon Pieters 2012-08-15 09:10:13 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> colSpan should not be "limited to only non-negative numbers greater than zero"
> (browsers don't throw when assigning 0)

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1699

(In reply to comment #1)
> and default value should be 1

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1700
Comment 5 contributor 2012-10-19 19:47:16 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7472.
Check-in comment: Better compatibility with legacy UAs
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7471&to=7472