On Aug 31, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Burleigh, Frank wrote:

> P's inside of formrow's float left, then we start a new row by closing
> the div and following with a new one.  So the markup is a little
> laborious but it does give nice control for style hints.
>
> I've recently found that the divs in this markup/styling don't serve
> their clearing (block) fundtion in Firefox 1.5.4 and 1.5.6 at  
> least, but
> are ok in 1.0.7 and 2.x.  I've extracted css and html into s reduced
> case.
>
> http://toaster.law.indiana.edu/exhibits/layout/form_block.html
>
> I've also tried putting style on the divs to insist that they
> clear--even that doesn't help, so it doesn't seem like a specificity
> issue.
>

<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309550>

based on your test file:
div.formrow {
        clear:both;
        display:table;
}
You can also use overflow:hidden instead of display:table

Essentially, use one of the properties that establish a new block  
formatting context.
This results in the a block that contains the floated elements.

<http://dev.l-c-n.com/IEW/simulations.php>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#block-formatting>


Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
<http://emps.l-c-n.com>




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