I fixed it in IE7, though that caused the problem that was occuring in IE7
to occur in Firefox. If you don't mind a conditional, problem solved!
See it at: http://studioj.net.au/wsg/pcl.html

- James


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Paul Collins <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks for your replies everyone.
>
> I'm not explaining the problem well, so I've created a demo page:
> http://paulcollinslondon.com/temporary/test.html
>
> If you take a look at it in IE7 and Firefox, you should be able to see the
> difference. The first <li> is taller than the second one, causing the fourth
> one to float up higher than the third, (in IE only). If I clear the left, it
> works in Firefox, but in IE the fourth one still floats up. I know I've
> solved this a while back and I've seen solutions on the internet, but for
> the life of me I cannot find them again!
>
> Any ideas would be most appreciated.
> Cheers
> Paul
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:54 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [WSG] Clearing a row with floated list <li>
>
> Paul Collins wrote:
>
> > I can add a class of "clear" to every third list item, which is great,
> > but I'm still having troubles in getting them to behave in IE.
> > Has anyone got a solution, or seen on online lately?!
>
> Didn't check for the actual case, but it's usually safer to declare
> 'clear: left' than 'clear: both' when trying to clear left-floats in IE.
> IE has quite a few 'clear' related bugs, and I think this is one of them.
>
> regards
>        Georg
> --
> http://www.gunlaug.no
>
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