It does not render correctly when there are no left hand buttons,  ie the
folder is empty.  The right div is floated so it is no longer in the "box"
anymore, so the div collapses not showing the background.

firefox esr 24.7.0.


On 22 August 2014 12:07, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/22/2014 04:44 AM, Greg Huber wrote:
>
>> ##
>>
>> Floating divs arbitrarily can cause errors (see "has layout" csmess), the
>> right float causes the div background colour not to show on ff.  Why I
>> removed the float previously to avoid the clearfix clug.
>>
>
> Have you tested that recently to confirm this is still an issue in 2014?
> Like I said, testing my current blog (which was uploaded before you put in
> the clearfix fix) on Windows (IE, FF, and Chrome) and Ubuntu (FF and
> Chrome), I simpIy can't see the issue, the right-side buttons render all
> fine, as they also do after your clearfix fix.  I couldn't understand from
> your JSP comment why you removed the float last time as I can't reproduce
> the problem (I'm relatively new to CSS and also didn't understand the
> "clearfix" thing), but even if clearfix were an issue today, it's more
> important to do that hack that you put in (thanks) as IMO it makes sense
> and looks nicer for certain, more destructive buttons like delete to be on
> the right side.  This is not a functionality issue (where we may need to
> make adjustments for older browsers to get them to work) but an UI design
> one, meaning we can put more weight on having Roller look sharp on modern
> browsers than to have it look suboptimal on the current ones in order to
> improve appearance on older ones.
>
> Glen
>
>

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