150181 - setting float property of relative positioned DIV messes up elements positioned absolute inside the DIV

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 67543

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect)

Description

[sk]

Build 2002052908 
Windows 2000 Server

Related docs
-http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#positioning-scheme
-Maybe bug 1289

The above url links to 2 test cases. Both consist of 2 nested DIV elements. The
outer div (yellow border) has positioning relative and the inner (red border)
absolute with offsets to put it inside the yellow div. 

The difference is that in the "wrong" link, the yellow DIV has also float:left. 

I expected 
both test cases to produce the same layout (a red box inside a yellow box)

Actual
in the "wrong" link, the red DIV is positioned based on the document instead of
the yellow DIV.

I read the above mentioned w3 document and it only says that float can not be
used with absolute positioned elements. In my case it is used with the relative
positioned DIV, so I don't understand why it should not layout the same as with
the case without float.

Internet Explorer 5.01 shows both cases the same way.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67543 ***