113658 - In XUL, "float: right;" doesn't appear to work

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Samir Gehani]

Will attach two test cases: 

Testcase #1 will be the HTML version with two buttons declared in a div.  The
first button correctly appears on the right of the second because the of the
"float: right" style declaration on the first button.

Testcase #2 shows the problem in XUL.  This testcase is the XUL port of testcase
#1.  The first button remains on the left of the second button as though "float:
right" was being ignored.  The DOM inspector shows that the "float: right" style
is applied to the node under the "computed style" view of the node.

Comment 1

[Samir Gehani]

Attachment: Testcase #1: correctly functioning HTML version of test.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

->evaughan

Comment 3

[Samir Gehani]

Attachment: Testcase #2: XUL version of test displaying apparently incorrect behavior.

Comment 4

[John Morrison]

Is this valid? There is no intention to support floating and positioning 
in box layout, as far as I know.

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I agree that this bug is essentially invalid.  There is, however, a possibility
that our current behavior isn't compliant with 9.7 of CSS2, and we should change
what overrides what.

Comment 6

[muhawo]

You may use dir instead,example:<hbox dir="rtl"><box/><box/><box/></hbox>

Comment 7

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 8

[Neil Deakin]

Don't need to support float here.