119654 - float left followed by float right error

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout: Floats, defect, P5)

Description

[Erik Arvidsson]

Actual behavior: If one has an element with float left and directly after that 
an element with float right the second element is placed below the first 
element. If the order is changed the float right element is placed above.

Desired (correct?) behavior: The elements should be placed on the same line 
(same distance from the top). This works as expected in both Opera6 and IE6.

Mozilla version: 2002010903

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Comment 1

[Erik Arvidsson]

Attachment: Should display header, two colums and a footer

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I strongly think that our behavior is correct.  The 'auto'-width of floats
should depend on the contents of the float and of the width of the containing
block, but never on the available space.  See bug 85876 and bug 82315.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

waterson, should things like this just be dupped to bug 99461?

Comment 4

[Chris Waterson]

We probably ought to leave them as dependencies, since `fixing' bug 99461 is
probably what will have triggered most of them.

dbaron, hixie: I have a bad feeling that we're going to need to implement that
quirk.

Comment 5

[Alexandru Savulov]

removing dependency

Comment 6

[Alexandru Savulov]

restoring dependency (forgot that waterson wated to keep those, sorry)

Comment 7

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

The CSS working group is very clear about what the right behaviour is here, so
if we really have to implement this, it will absolutely have to be limited to
quirks mode. I strongly urge you not to bother.

Comment 8

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->Floats

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I think we should just wontfix this.  If we ever decide to implement that quirk,
we'll end up with a bug to that effect and this one will just continue to rot.

Comment 10

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

WONTFIX. We have too many quirks as it is.