Firefox css bug rediscovered

Paul · 2009-07-09 23:56:56

http://www.zeldman.com/2009/07/09/firefox-test-page/

A bit of a nasty one but fortunately confined to long pages. That does mean it is a potential problem for blog entries with lots of comments or for forum threads depending on the css/markup employed by the forum application.

Smartys · 2009-07-10 00:03:26

So, I couldn't figure it out from reading that site: what markup/CSS causes that issue? Is there a bug report over at the Mozilla bugtracker that people can follow?

Paul · 2009-07-10 00:24:33

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215055

Its an old bug which could now become a problem because people (including me) have started using overflow:hidden/overflow:auto rather more than was previously the case e.g for shrink wrapping floats.

Smartys · 2009-07-10 00:29:43

Got it. The "old" way was an extra clearer div, right?

Paul · 2009-07-10 00:34:45

Right. The newer way which flux 1.3 uses is to insert a clearing element with :after but that is something of a hack. In practice, blogs are the most vulnerable because they generally don't paginate comments so a lot of comments could result in a huge page. Forums tend to paginate so the pages are shorter even with a huge thread.

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