269233 - incorrect clearing of nested floats

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Pawel Widera]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; pl-PL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; pl-PL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

A content div contains two right floated divs (A and B), where the second one
(B) is additionaly cleared (to align vertically). Before the content div there
is another right floated div (C). The clear applied to B is positioned according
to the height of C, instead of the height of A.
It works fine in Mozilla Suit 1.7.3 and FireFox 0.10.1. This bug is also present
in IE and Opera.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Render the given URL in FireFox 1.0
Actual Results:  
The Cleared Floated Div is aligned vertically to the height of the Right Float.

Expected Results:  
The Cleared Floated Div should be aligned vertically to the height of the
Floated Div.

Comment 1

[Pawel Widera]

Attachment: html test case

Comment 2

[Gary van der Merwe]

I think Bug 148994 has something to do with this.

Comment 3

[Uri Bernstein]

Yes - the new behaviour is the result of the fix to bug 148994. Unfortunately,
this new behaviour is the correct one according to the spec (see e.g. bug 148994
comment 7).

Sadly marking INVALID.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Verified.  Note that IE and Opera have been getting this right all along, hence
the "This bug is also present in IE and Opera" part of comment 0...