[vox-tech] img align=right weirdness in mozilla
Ken Bloom
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:15:29 -0800
It works for me. Did you somehow figure out how to fix it, or is it
still screwed up in your browser?
||/ Name Version Description
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ii mozilla-browse 1.0.0-0.woody. Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser
ii galeon 1.2.5-0.woody. Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look an
> ---ORIGINAL MESSAGE---
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:25:49 -0800
> From: Bill Kendrick <nbs@sonic.net>
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> Subject: [vox-tech] img align=right weirdness in mozilla
> Reply-To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
>
> I just noticed that the news items on the front page of my
> http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ site renders strangely.
>
> Notice how each newsitem is indented on the right more and more.
>
> I'm familiar with this oddness (from Netscape 4 and other browsers)
> when you have multiple images aligned the same way.
>
> e.g., if there's not enough verticle clearance between them, they line up
> like so:
>
> -----. /\
> --. /\ \/
> \/
>
> rather than:
>
> ----- /\
> ---. \/
> --. /\
> \/
>
>
> The solution I was familiar with (and I could be wrong, seeing as it
> doesn't work in Mozilla; although it does seem to make all other browsers
> I've tried happy) is to use a "clear=all" attribute to a benign tag,
> like <br>:
>
>
> So, instead of having just this, which could cause the 2nd image to
> be crammed in further to the left:
>
> <img src="foo.png" align=right>
> This text appears on the left of the FOO image.<p>
>
> <img src="bar.png" align=right>
> This text appears on the left of the BAR image.
>
> ... You have this:
>
> <img src="foo.png" align=right>
> This text appears on the left of the FOO image.<p>
> <br clear=all><!-- This magic keeps 'bar.png' aligned with 'foo.png' -->
>
> <img src="bar.png" align=right>
> This text appears on the left of the BAR image.
> <br clear=all><!-- a good habit -->
>
>
> However, as I said, this isn't working in Mozilla.
>
> Instead, I'm getting:
>
>
> # Tux Paint speaks Chinese - Jan. 6, 2003 ########
> The latest release of Tux Paint includes a fix for ########
> printing in Windows, updated Spanish ########
> documentation, and support for ########
> Chinese (Simplified)!
> this horiz. rule
> -------------------------------------------------- <-- doesn't extend
> all the way, either!
>
> # Tux Paint demos ########
> in Northern California - ########
> Dec. 29, 2002 ########
> ########
> Bill Kendrick, lead developer of
> Tux Paint, will be demonstrating
> Tux Paint at the January 9th
> meeting of the Davis Mac Users
> Group, the January 14th meeting
> of the North Bay Linux Users'
> Group in Sebastopol, and the
> January 15th meeting of the
> Sacramento PC Users' Group.
>
> ---------------------------------- <-- even worse! more indented!
>
> # Tux Paint ########
> 0.9.2 for ########
> Windows - ########
> Dec. 19, 2002 ########
>
> Last week's
> release of Tux
> Paint, and the
> most recent
> Stamps
> collection are
> available for
> Windows.
>
>
> Notice that the images don't extend below the text at all in any of the
> blocks, so even WITHOUT a "<br clear=all>", the horizontal rules, and the
> text and right-align images below them should extend all the way to the
> right.
>
>
> What's up!? Is it a bug in the version of Mozilla I'm using?
> Does anyone see the same weirdness in other browsers?
> (I don't in IE 5.x, Netscape 4.x, Konqueror 2.x, Opera 5.x.)
>
> I'm using:
>
> Mozilla 1.0
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0)
> Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> -bill!
>