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Internet Explorer not honouring "clear" style on list items

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BillyRayPreachersSon

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I have a problem where IE (at least v5.0, v5.5, and v6.0 on Windows) does not honour "clear:left" when applied to list elements.

Here's my test harness:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
    <meta name="description" content="Some content">
    <title>List Test Page</title>

    <style type="text/css">
		div#myList ul {
			margin: 0px;
			padding: 0px;
			margin-top: 1em;
			margin-bottom: 1em;
			float: left;
			list-style-type: none;
		}

		div#myList ul li {
			margin: 0px;
			padding: 0px;
		}

		div#myList ul li.cell,
		div#myList ul li.break {
			float: left;
			clear: none;
			width: 5em;
			margin-right: 0.5em;
			background-color: red;
		}

		div#myList ul li.break {
			clear: left;
		}
    </style>
</head>

<body>
	<div id="myList">
		<ul>
			<li class="cell break">Item 1</li>
			<li class="cell">Item 2</li>
			<li class="cell">Item 3</li>
			<li class="cell break">Item 4</li>
			<li class="cell">Item 5</li>
			<li class="cell">Item 6</li>
			<li class="cell break">Item 7</li>
			<li class="cell">Item 8</li>
			<li class="cell">Item 9</li>
		</ul>
	</div>
</body>
</html>

The DOCTYPE must remain unchanged. Everything else is fair game.

The page is validating with no errors, and exhibits the expected behaviour in NN v7.0 and FF v1.0.4.

I would expect to see a grid of 3 cols x 3 rows... but in IE, the list simply repeats to the right until it wraps.

I've search on Google for a bit, but can't find any reference to this specific issue.

Does anyone have any ideas about (a) why IE is doing this, and (b) how I could possibly fix this?

Thanks!

Dan

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Have you considered doing it like this?:
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
    <meta name="description" content="Some content">
    <title>List Test Page</title>

    <style type="text/css">
        div#myList ul {
            margin: 0px;
            padding: 0px;
            margin-top: 1em;
            margin-bottom: 1em;
            float: left;
            list-style-type: none;
            [b]width: 16.5em;[/b]
        }

        div#myList ul li {
            margin: 0px;
            padding: 0px;
            float: left;
            width: 5em;
            margin-right: 0.5em;
            background-color: red;
        }

    </style>
</head>

<body>
    <div id="myList">
        <ul>
            <li>Item 1</li>
            <li>Item 2</li>
            <li>Item 3</li>
            <li>Item 4</li>
            <li>Item 5</li>
            <li>Item 6</li>
            <li>Item 7</li>
            <li>Item 8</li>
            <li>Item 9</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
By explicitly setting a width for the <ul>, I can force the <li>s to show up three-per-line. It makes it easier to change the layout to something else too, without having to change the HTML.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd
 
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Hmm.. it looks like IE is honouring the clear, in that items 1, 4, and 7 do appear on their own line. The problem is that other content flows back up to the top - which is still not what I'm after.

While I could make the UL the same width as 3 LIs, some of my rows only have 2 items, so that won't always work.

I've a feeling this one is going to drive me potty!

Dan

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a) I'm not sure.
b)
Code: 
        div#myList ul {
            margin: 0px;
            padding: 0px;
            list-style-type: none;
            clear: left;
        }

        div#myList ul li {
            margin: 0px;
            padding: 0px;
        }

        div#myList ul li.cell {
            float: left;
	    clear: none;
            width: 5em;
            margin-right: 0.5em;
            background-color: red;
        }
Code: 
    <div id="myList">
        <ul>
            <li class="cell">Item 1</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 2</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 3</li>
	</ul>
	<ul>
            <li class="cell">Item 4</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 5</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 6</li>
	</ul>
	<ul>
            <li class="cell">Item 7</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 8</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 9</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
You had a "margin-top: 1em" and "margin-bottom: 1em" on the original UL element. This added space between the 3 ULs in this code of course, so it was removed. A simple <br> or maybe add a style rule to have a margin of 2em should fix it.
 
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This seems to work too (though it's less elegant than my first solution):
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
    <meta name="description" content="Some content">
    <title>List Test Page</title>

    <style type="text/css">
        div#myList ul {
            margin: 0px;
            padding: 0px;
            margin-top: 1em;
            margin-bottom: 1em;
            float: left;
            list-style-type: none;
        }

        div#myList ul li {
            margin: 0px;
            padding: 0px;
        }

        div#myList ul li.cell,
        div#myList ul li.break {
            float: left;
            clear: none;
            width: 5em;
            margin-right: 0.5em;
            background-color: red;
        }

        div#myList ul li.break {
            clear: none;
            float:none;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>
    <div id="myList">
        <ul>
            <li class="cell">Item 1</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 2</li>
            <li class="cell break">Item 3</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 4</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 5</li>
            <li class="cell break">Item 6</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 7</li>
            <li class="cell">Item 8</li>
            <li class="cell break">Item 9</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
Note that I now apply the "break" class to the last column, not the first. Maybe you have a good reason for applying .cell to every <li>, I can't see one.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd
 
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