Here is an outline of a page I'm developing.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/test.css" />
<title>Prosperity Login</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="banner">
</div>
<div id="subbanner">
</div>
<div id="body">
<div id="colA">
</div>
<div id="colB">
<div id="B1">
</div>
<div id="B2">
</div>
</div>
<div id="colC">
</div>
<div id="colD">
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
</body>
</html>
And the CSS:
* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
div {
border: 1px dotted;
}
#banner {
height: 70px;
width: 100%;
}
#subbanner {
height: 30px;
width: 100%;
}
#body {
background-color: #CCFFCC;
width: 80%;
}
#colA{
float: left;
height: 120px;
width: 24%;
}
#colB{
float: left;
height: 80px;
width: 24%;
}
#colC{
float: left;
height: 120px;
width: 24%;
}
#colD{
float: left;
height: 120px;
width: 24%;
}
#B1{
float: right;
height: 48px;
width: 80%;
}
#B2{
float: right;
height: 28px;
width: 80%;
}
#footer{
height: 30px;
width: 100%;
}
In Firefox 3, the body div (with a green background) is squished to almost nothing while IE7 renders the page perfectly. From what I can tell of the CSS 2.1 standard (via Meyer's O'Reilly book), floated divs should float within their container block which is clearly not the case in Firefox 3.
So if Firefox's rendering is compliant, what am I missing?