293329 - Background color does not show when style float:left is used in span.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Cheong Tek Mun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050503 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050503 Firefox/1.0+

In <div style="background-color:#ffffcc"><span style="float:left">This is left
panel</span></div>, the background-color is not shown in Firefox but it is shown
in IE. If style="float:left" in span element is removed, the background color is
shown.  I believe it is a bug in Firefox.

Refer to the attached testcase in Additional comment #1.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Cheong Tek Mun]

Attachment: Testcase to show background-color.

Comment 2

[u63580]

I see the same result in IE and FF (1.0.3) - no background in the second line. 
My understanding of a float was that it wasn't counted when producing
backgrounds, etc.  So I'm not sure this is a bug.

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

This is invalid. You need to clear after the floats in order for this to work.

Comment 4

[Cheong Tek Mun]

Attachment: Resubmit testcase for background-color

Sorry for the wrong testcase.  I have attached a new test case to show that the
background-color can be shown in IE but not in Firefox 1.0.3.

If it is not a bug, please suggest a suitable workaround such that I can use
span with style float for formatting my web page in both IE and Firefox.

Thanks

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

If you're going to reopen, at least attach a testcase that can be examined from
the bug rather than a zip file.

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

That said, the description of the bug in comment 0 is definitely not a valid bug.