A day of IE hell worse than any I can remember...
Nasty encounter with a bug that happens when float and clear is on the same element, which is floated in an opposite direction from a preceding float, nothing you can do will clear the preceding float, it seems, except adding an empty div or similar to clear, in between the 2... yuk...
Mental note: Never put float and clear on same element
I did, with the floats in opposite directions, and I got this bug, situation 3
http://www.brunildo.org/test/IEWfc3.html
So I restructured the PAGE TEMPLATE, so my elements could have the floats going in the same direction. But no dice, what I got then was this bug
http://www.brunildo.org/test/IEWfc.html
The culprit being that I still had float and clear on same element. IE7 just dosn't like this. The solution luckily for me, was to remove the clear:both from the 2nd last floated element. I realised I could do this by using firebug and checking out what I could do without, and low and behold, removing the clear didn't make any difference, because of the elements length, it was longer than the space available that I was trying to clear it from.
Thats not really a fix, but it works in this layout, it self clears because it simply wont fit alongside the previous floats, lucky me.
The only other option would have been to add an extra clearing wrapper and wrap the floats above in that, or put an empty clearer div preceding the floats I wanted cleared.
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