429111 - width:auto inline-block next to float is too wide to fit

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Floats, defect)

Description

[Malbrouck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

the pommo (www.pommo.org) mailing software is web-based. Its admin page hasn't the same rendering in FireFox 2 than FireFox 3.

The problem with FireFox 3 is that the main text of the page is under the left menu. With FireFox 2 and other browsers, they are at the same level in the page.

This can be easilly reproduced using the pommo try page here : http://try.pommo.org/admin/admin.php

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use FireFox 2
2. go to http://try.pommo.org/admin/admin.php
3. use FireFox 3 and go to the same URL
4. compare the two displays 
Actual Results:  
you'll see that FireFox 3 isn't putting the main text at the same level than left menu

Expected Results:  
FireFox 3 should have presented the page like FireFox 2 with left menu at same level than right text.

Comment 1

[Jan Darmochwal]

That page uses inline-block for the content <div>. FF2 does not support inline-block, but FF3 does. I'm not a CSS expert, but Opera and Konqueror look quite similar to FF3, so this is probably a bug in the page's stylesheet.

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase #1

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

David, did I see you were working on something like this in the last few days?

Comment 4

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

No, since it's inline-block.  If it were block the patch from bug 427129 would have fixed this, but this seems invalid.

Comment 5

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

This is the result of supporting inline-block -- any browser that supports it should fail the same way, as far as I can tell.