I was wondering how modern browsers render html tables, for example how they figure

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I was wondering how modern browsers render html tables, for example how they figure

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I was wondering how modern browsers render html tables, for example how they figure out the exact size of the cells. After googling a bit, all I found was an RFC from 1996, but nothing new. Since I also read that html 5 specifies the parsing algorithm, so I thought maybe the algorithm for determinating the layout is also specified or at least it is described how a possible algorithm should work. Just looking at the code of open source browsers would probably be very time consuming and therefore rather not an option.