199873 - Absolutely positioned <div> placed after content if "top" not specified

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94468

(Core :: Layout: Positioned, defect)

Description

[ihatejunkmail]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

The menu towards bottom of http://www.harvest.org is misaligned only in
Mozilla/Netscape. Works fine in IE and even older versions of IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.harvest.org
2.Look at menu towards bottom of web site
3.

Actual Results:  
You see that the menu is misaligned.

Expected Results:  
Had a menu that is aligned.

Comment 1

[Andreas Kunz]

Attachment: testcase

Reduced testcase.
Renders differently in Moz and IE. Not sure which one is right, though.
Removing "top: 0pt;" from the third div or removing the <br> makes it render
the same.
This <br> is what's left in my testcase of the 17 (!) <br>'s that are in the
original page and that do not change anything in IE but break things in
Mozilla.
If the site should get evangelized (that sounds a bit ironic with a christian
site as this one...) they should simply remove those abundant linebreaks and
everything should be well.

Reporter: if I were you I'd better not always assume that IE is always right
and everything Mozilla does differently is wrong... that way you're wrong most
of the time...
Although in this case Opera 7 does it as IE (which still does not necessarily
mean anything...).

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

-Layout

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

reduce it further by taking out the outmost <div> and you've got
bug 94468

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94468 ***