Sent by Bruno Fassino on 28 January 2004 10:10
Ellen Herzfeld wrote:
> http://www.quarante-deux.org/archives/klein/divers/verne.html
> In IEWin6.02 and IEWin5.5 (I haven't checked in 5.0 yet) the main
> text that should stay at the same height as the sidebar menu
> sometimes (only at some window sizes) drops below the floated sidebar
Bruno Fassino wrote:
> IMHO the problem is caused by the combination of multiple factors,
> one being the presence of italic text in your main text.
Big John wrote:
> It's true that italics mess up IE badly, but I believe
> this problem is closer to the 1px rounding error because of
> the way the div width changes when the window size is gradually
> changed. I have a demo that displays exactly this behavior:
> http://positioniseverything.net/round-error.html
> It's possible that the IE italics bug might be also affecting
> the page, but that bug does not come and go depending on window
> width.
John,
I'm still convinced that, in this particular case, the problem is related to
italics, rather then rounding errors, for the following reasons:
1) Removing all italics (no other changes) the problem disappears at all,
2) The problem occurs even if all measurements are in px (no %, no em), see
this simple test case: http://www.brunildo.it/test/test/test42_2.html
3) It is true that the IE italics bug should not come and go depending on
window width, but when you change window width the lines wrap differently,
so it may happen that the "amount" of the problem varies. At some widths, in
addition to the div moved below, also an horizontal scrollbar appears.
Cheers,
Bruno
PS. Of course, the 3px IE float bug also plays a role here: when IE needs
"more room" for the side div, the first thing it does is to move it beneath
the float, because it thinks to have three pixels more there. If these are
not enough it adds the horizontal scrollbar.
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