Re: [css-break][css-floats] Float pushed to the next fragmentainer, what about its siblings?

On 09/01/2015 08:51 AM, Morten Stenshorne wrote:
> When a float is pushed to the next fragmentainer (let's use multicol as
> an example, so henceforth I'll use the term "column" instead of
> "fragmentainer"), because it's unbreakable, and there's not enough space
> remaining in the current column, should consecutive content also be
> pushed to the next column, even if there's room for it in the previous
> column?
>
> Example:
>
>      <div style="columns:2; column-fill:auto; height:10em; orphans:1; widows:1;">
>          line before float<br>
>          <img src="http://home.powertech.no/mstensho/gfx/bilen.jpg" style="float:left; height:10em;">
>          line after float, but in which column?<br>
>      </div>
>
> Looks like I've been assuming that the answer is "yes, push everything
> to the next column", seeing how I implemented it in Presto, but I cannot
> find anything in the spec suggesting such behavior.
>
> And I have a feeling that floats traditionally don't affect sibling
> content in such ways; e.g.:

Another example, that's closer to what happens:
 
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0A%3Cstyle%3E%0A.float%20{%20float%3A%20left%3B%20width%3A%204em%3B%20height%3A%204em%3B%20border%3A%20solid%3B%20}%0A.clear%20{%20clear%3A%20both%3B%20}%0A%3C%2Fstyle%3E%0A%0A%3Cp%3EFirst%20bit%20of%20text.%20Now%20a%20float%3A%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%27float%27%3E1%3C%2Fspan%3E%20Now%20more%20text.%20Now%20another%20float%3A%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%27float%27%3E2%3C%2Fspan%3E%20Now%20a%20third%20float%20that%20also%20has%20clearance%3A%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%27float%20clear%27%3E3%3C%2Fspan%3E%20And%20here%20is%20the%20text%20after%20the%20cleared%20float.

Here we have a float in the middle of the text that is cleared.
It goes below the previous floats, but it doesn't push the
content after the float down to come with it.

So I think my conclusion is, no, the float may move, but it
does not take its content with it.

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 16 September 2015 21:43:17 UTC