Given the following HTML. It display two columns: #left
, #right
. Both are fixed width and have 1px borders. Width and borders equal the size of upper container: #wrap
.
When I zoom out Firefox 3.5.2 by pressing Ctrl+- columns get wrapped (demo).
How to prevent this?
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
div {float:left}
#wrap {width:960px}
#left, #right {width:478px;border:1px solid}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<div id="left">
left
</div>
<div id="right">
right
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I encountered the same issue described above. After, hopelessly wandering around the internet for a few minutes, I found out that apparently it's a bug in
Firefox 3.5.x
andIE 7/8
. The bug is still present as of this writing.To see more about the bug go here: http://markasunread.com/?p=61 (formerly http://markasunread.com/2009/06/zoom-bug-in-ie78-and-firefox-caused-by-border/)
Best Solution to fix floating bug in every case is use table layout using tds. That will never loose floating.
Ok guys, when you have a div with fixed height, to prevent zoom from breaking up everything, add
overflow:hidden
to it's css. That did the trick for me and now every browser can go zoom crazy. :)