Floated image in list doesn't work properly (IE)

**heliotropic** · Aug 21, 2007 06:49

I'm trying to get text to wrap around an image. This code works in Firefox, but not in IE:

XHTML:

Code:

<li>
<a href="http://www.random.com"><img src="images/image.gif" id="floatedimage" /></a>
<h2>A headline.</h2>
<p>Some text is here.</p>
</li>

CSS:

Code:

floatedimage{
float: left;
}

The code works in both browsers if I take it out of the list:

Code:

<a href="http://www.random.com"><img src="images/image.gif" id="floatedimage" /></a>
<h2>A headline.</h2>
<p>Some text is here.</p>

In CSS, if I set:

Code:

ul{
    display: inline;
}

The float works, but the image is jogged a few pixels too high in IE (vs. Firefox.) So I'm thinking maybe there is a better way to remedy the problem?

Thank you, you guys and girls are awesome.

**JimmyP** · Aug 21, 2007 07:05

What do you mean wrap around. DO you mean for the text to go underneath the image.

If so set <li> to float left and img to display:block

**heliotropic** · Aug 21, 2007 07:22

I mean for the text to sit right of the image until it clears the image's height. The first example code above does just that in Firefox, but in IE the image sits above the text.

**all4nerds** · Aug 21, 2007 07:29

Hello

You don't clear your floats, IE suffers from Haslayout and IE < 7 also from the 3 pixel jog

Code:

<!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>
<title>12345 12345 12345 12345 12345</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
	<!-- saved from url=(0022)http://www.domain.com/ -->
	<style type="text/css">
	*{padding:0;margin:0;}
	
	img{border:none;}
	ul{list-style:none;}
	
	li{min-height:1&#37;;overflow:hidden;}
	
	li a{float:left;}
	
	* html li a{left:3px;position:relative;margin:0 0 0 -3px;}
	* html ul li{height:1%;}
	</style>
	<script type="text/javascript">

	</script>
</head>
<body>


<div><ul><li>
<a href="http://www.random.com"><img src="http://www.google.nl/images/firefox/fox1.gif" id="floatedimage" alt="" /></a><h2>A headline.</h2><p>Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. Some text is here. </p>
</li></ul>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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