Re: DW bug? Not clearing floats via overflow:hidden

Unfortunately DW's design view is not at all standards compliant. It's
close, but not good enough.

That being said, always, always, preview your pages in a real browser.

Thanks for the responses.
Agreed, always test in target browsers.

But what if the client is a content editor...and is using DW Templates? The
text inside a collapsed box in DW becomes unselectable in Design View, so
Templates won't work (the editable region displays as collapsed).

The solution is to make sure to use the old way--clearer divs (instead of
overflow:hidden) on all the floats...something that is not made obvious within
any of the help avenues inside DW. I mean, CS3 has the very cool "Test Page"
functionality...you would think the developers could have flagged the
overflow:hidden display flaw as a problem there.

You should try the Beta of CS4 and see if the bug is still there and report
it. Otherwise it's unlikely anyone will fix it.

It's fixed in CS4.

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"bb" <none (AT) none (DOT) com> wrote

You should try the Beta of CS4 and see if the bug is still there and
report it. Otherwise it's unlikely anyone will fix it.