317237 - Floats improperly rendered on non-local webpages

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Don Wilson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Using float: left; and float: right; on a web-based server (ie: not immediate results given), floats sometime (10% of the time) render as if a certain float's width is set to a larger width that would inbalance the others, causing them to go to the next appropriate line. This happens on slower machines (such as a 550mhz HP Win98SE) more frequently, as well as on websites that are slow to respond.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Since its rare for this to happen, steps are unable to reproduce

Actual Results:  
Float's widths seem to be larger than they should be, resulting in an illnatured looking layout. See attached image.

Expected Results:  
Render should show floats properly. See attached image.

Usage of tables instead of div/float works perfectly every time.

Comment 1

[Don Wilson]

Attachment: Actual results

Comment 2

[Don Wilson]

Attachment: Expected results

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

You might want to upgrade to ff 1.5

Comment 4

[Don Wilson]

(In reply to comment #3)
> You might want to upgrade to ff 1.5
> 

I'm working on a new project with these types of floats with the newest verison of Firefox (1.5.0.2) and it's still occuring.

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Please attach a minimal testcase that reproduces the bug. Also please test in a recent trunk build if possible.

Comment 6

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 7

[Don Wilson]

I'm still seeing this problem happen till this day.

This float problem happens randomly, which is why it's so hard to point it out.

Comment 8

[Steve England [:stevee]]

What version of firefox are you currently using? (Help > About will tell you).

Also, it'd be interesting to see if you see this problem with a trunk build:
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 9

[Don Wilson]

I've been using 2.0.0.4. I'll try the trunk version in a little while.

Comment 10

[Kevin Brosnan]

Any feedback on testing the trunk? http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test

Comment 11

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Please reopen the bug if you have an URL or testcase that triggers
the problem in Firefox 3.0b2 or later.
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

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