91357 - redhat.com - Uses <DIV>s for left/right sidebar/content, but renders top/bottom

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[Ken Harris]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010715
BuildID:    2001071521

The Mauve web site has a 2-finger-wide sidebar-like panel
on the left side, and content to the right of that, like
many web pages.  Under Mozilla, the content (right side)
renders under the sidebar, not to the right of it -- you
have to scroll down to see it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla
2. Go to http://sources.redhat.com/mauve/
3. Scroll down to see the content

Actual Results:  Must scroll down to read most of the content

Expected Results:  Content should appear to the right of the sidebar,
no scrolling required.

Netscape 4.77 renders this.  (I don't know if it's "correct"
or not, but 4.77's is probably the intended rendering.)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to evangelism.

The stylesheet has:

DIV.sidebar { 
            position: float;
            background-image: url(img/sidebar.gif);
            background-repeat: no-repeat;
            background-position: left top;
            float: left;
            width: 110px;
            height: 600px;
            margin-left: 0px;
            border-left: 0px;
            padding-top: 12px;
            padding-left: 0px;
            border-width: 0;
                                       }

DIV.content {
            position: float;
            float: right;
            padding-top: 12px;
            padding-left: 20px;
            overflow: hidden;
            border-width: 0; 
            text-align: left;            
                                       }

Note the lack of a width for the div#content.  Floated boxes _must_ have a width
set...  In this case, the width defaults to the width of the page, and the two
floated boxes don't fit next to each other.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

page design by http://freehive.styx.net/ which is dead, jim.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contacted

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> fixed.