308346 - css div style clear:both not clearing floats

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Geuis Teses]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

On the example page http://blog.thetechgurus.net/index2.html 2 <div> blocks are
floated left together. They are followed by a <div style="clear:both"></div>
which is followed by another <div> block. All blocks in question have background
images. When at 0 height, the <div style="clear:both"></div> does not clear the
floats. By making the div with the clear:both 1px high, it does clear the floats.

By adding clear:both to the css class 'reddivider' it does clear the float
properly also.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. problem originally noticed when css was in a separate include stylesheet
2. placed all css styling in the same file, reduced to minimum number of <div>
blocks.
3. same problem existed.

Actual Results:  
<div style="clear:both"></div> still not clearing floats.

Expected Results:  
<div style="clear:both"></div> should clear the floats without needing a minimum
height. Having to add a minimum height potentially breaks the flow of a webpage
designed to have multiple div blocks stacking on top of each other, for example.

Comment 1

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050913
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005091308

The build this bug is reported against is too old.  Please recheck using a
recent nightly build[1,2] to verify that the behavior still exists and post the
results here.

Also, please supply your testcase as an attachment to help others verify this
behavior.

Thanks.

[1] ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/
[2] ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk

Comment 2

[Geuis Teses]

Was using 1.0.6 before and it had this bug. Updated to the latest nightly build
and the bug has been corrected.

Comment 3

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

Please use FIXED only if you can trace this to a specific commit by a developer.  

For more info see:

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bugzilla-privilege-guide.html#resolving