271371 - Text overlaps right float with clear:right

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Floats, defect)

Description

[Pawel Widera]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/0.9.1+

Since bug 269233 was marked invalid (I would rather agree with bug 148994,
comment 9 and bug 148994, comment 12 that the specification is lacking precision
in this matter, however I also found reasonable to follow the popular IE and
Opera behaviour when tehre is no valiation of standard), it is not possible to
align floats vertically in a div, which has a floated adjacent div (the clear is
made globallly - see attachment 165599 [details]).
So, I was trying to achieve the desired effect with absolute positioning. I've
added some text to go around the floats and this revealed the bug - the text
overlaps the floats (see the test case).
I do some additional testing and I found the border of the first float to be the
bug triggering element (see minimal test case with bug triggering line in comments).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See the test case.
Actual Results:  
The text overlaps the floats.

Expected Results:  
The text should not overlap the floats.

Comment 1

[Pawel Widera]

Attachment: test case

Comment 2

[Pawel Widera]

Attachment: minimal test case

The bug triggering css line is put in comments.

Comment 3

[Uri Bernstein]

Looks like a duplicate of bug 41412 (although the testcase is a bit different).

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase #2

Comment 5

[Pawel Widera]

Attachment: Testcase #3

Comment 6

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Attachment: problem appears in wikipedia

you should try to make some move for this bug, I've seen 3 websites within one
week affected by this problem (including wikipedia)

requesting blocking flag

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

bz, dbaron, is this something we should get fixed for 1.8?

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We've lived with it forever (see bug 41412).  So "only if it's suddenly more
urgent than it has been in the last 4 years."

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Thanks boris. Minusing for 1.8 and 1.1

Comment 10

[Alex]

*** Bug 304511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Alex]

My testcase:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/test_ff001.html

Images as seen by ff, opera and konquere can be downloaded from the duplicate
bug report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304511

Comment 12

[Daniel.S]

This has been fixed by the recent checkins of bug 25888.

Comment 13

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Could use a test.