User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/0.9.1+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/0.9.1+ Since bug 269233 was marked invalid (I would rather agree with bug 148994, comment 9 and bug 148994, comment 12 that the specification is lacking precision in this matter, however I also found reasonable to follow the popular IE and Opera behaviour when tehre is no valiation of standard), it is not possible to align floats vertically in a div, which has a floated adjacent div (the clear is made globallly - see attachment 165599 [details]). So, I was trying to achieve the desired effect with absolute positioning. I've added some text to go around the floats and this revealed the bug - the text overlaps the floats (see the test case). I do some additional testing and I found the border of the first float to be the bug triggering element (see minimal test case with bug triggering line in comments). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See the test case. Actual Results: The text overlaps the floats. Expected Results: The text should not overlap the floats.

The bug triggering css line is put in comments.

Looks like a duplicate of bug 41412 (although the testcase is a bit different).

you should try to make some move for this bug, I've seen 3 websites within one week affected by this problem (including wikipedia) requesting blocking flag

bz, dbaron, is this something we should get fixed for 1.8?

We've lived with it forever (see bug 41412). So "only if it's suddenly more urgent than it has been in the last 4 years."

Thanks boris. Minusing for 1.8 and 1.1

*** Bug 304511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

My testcase: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/test_ff001.html Images as seen by ff, opera and konquere can be downloaded from the duplicate bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304511

This has been fixed by the recent checkins of bug 25888.

Could use a test.