Sent by Kevin W on 28 December 2002 12:12
On Saturday, James Bennett wrote:
> I'm seeing some interesting behavior in Opera 6 under Linux on a couple
> of pages
Same thing happens on Opera 5, 6 and 7b2 on Windows.
> I think the "clear: both" on the formRow class is causing the problem;
> Opera is reading that and placing the
> form elements below every other floated element on the page.
Yes. Using clear:left or removing it completely seems to make it display
how you want it (in Opera 7, at least).
> Mozilla behavior makes more sense and is what I intuitively expect, but
> Opera's
> behavior seems to follow to the letter the definition of "clear: both"
> ("The
> generated box is moved below all floating boxes of earlier elements in
> the source document"). Which one is correct?
Opera is correct. The specification is fairly clear that the box appears
below *any* earlier floating elements, not excluding those that aren't
siblings.
--
Kevin W :-)
