Re: [CSS21] Floating - who's right?

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On 5/02/2011 12:01 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 2/4/11 7:22 PM, Васил Рангелов wrote:

>> and what seems more curious to me is that the developer tools of those
>> browsers show the floated element as if it belongs within the
>> positioned one
>
> Can't tell you what's going there, sorry

They are simply occupying the same horizontal space within the <body>.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<style type="text/css">
   .floated { float:left; background: lime; }
   .wrap {  background: salmon; }
   .cleared { clear:left; }
</style>

<body><div class="floated">float</div><div class="wrap"><div 
class="cleared"></div></div></body>

The are no anonymous boxes here (or white-space) and nothing in the spec 
says that clear should have any affect apart from clearing floated content.

In this case, clear generates a block and is clearing nothing and all 
engines render the same.

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