166486 - Left-aligned image causes miscalculated containing box size

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Moshe Jacobson]

When an image is left-aligned, and text wraps around it but does not extend to
the bottom of the image, the containing box is drawn to end at the bottom of the
text, not at the bottom of the image, even though the image is taller than the text.
See URL for a clear demonstration of problem.

Comment 1

[Ed Catmur]

This is correct behaviour. 'align="left"' (a deprecated attribute) causes the
image to float left (equivalent to 'style="float: left;"') and the image is
therefore taken out of the normal flow, and the block box enclosing the image
flows vertically as if the image doesn't exist.

References:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#adef-align-IMG
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/graphics.html#floating
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/graphics.html#h-15.1.3
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#floats

Comment 2

[Ed Catmur]

Oh, and Mozilla's behaviour is consistent with that of other browsers (IE,
Opera, etc...)

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

Should this be marked invalid then ?

Comment 4

[Kenneth Herron]

-> invalid, since everyone seems to accept comment #1.