266446 - Site does not display correctly: div boxes in a single column instead of layed out in a table

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Vijay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

The web page is contains many boxes - i.e. content sections - each inside a
<div> tag.  Each box is displayed, one after the other, in a single column. 
Instead, the boxes should be laid out in a table.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. look at www.tiscali.de in firefox
2. look at www.tiscali.de in i.e.
3.  compare

Actual Results:  
In ie, the site displays correctly.  In firefox, it doesn't

Expected Results:  
The boxes should be laid out as in ie

I have screen shots, if you like

Comment 1

[Vijay]

Attachment: www.tiscali.de in firefox

note one long column

Comment 2

[Vijay]

Attachment: www.tiscali.de in internet explorer

this is how the page should look

Comment 3

[PikeUK]

The page looks right in:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

Do you still see the problem?

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050228
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 5

[Darrell Brogdon]

Attachment: Screenshot of the errant behavior.

Comment 6

[Darrell Brogdon]

Attachment: HTML Source for the screenshot

Comment 7

[Darrell Brogdon]

I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is applicable but I wanted to submit it here
before creating a new bug.

When you have two <div>s nested inside a single <div>, both with float
attributes (one is float: left and the other float: right) then they seem to be
getting removed from the parent float as seen in in attachment
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=177433.  However, when the float
attributes are removed completely they are placed back in the parent div. 

I've tried changing the 'clear' attribute but that didn't seem to help.

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 9

[Kevin Brosnan]

We don't know what patch if any fixed this. worksforme