This example exhibits the following two bugs:
‘Long clipped columns’ is an important, industry-recognised technique for creating the appearance of equal height in (floated) ‘columns’. It works through giving the columns a large padding-bottom and a large negative margin-bottom, and then setting the column-holder’s overflow to hidden so that all column padding below the ‘pulled-up’ bottom border edge of the column-holder is clipped.
This minimal example concerns nested long clipped columns. there is one column – that with the red background. It is floated. It is also the column-holder for a child column. The outer column-holder has position:relative.
Note that in IE 6 – but not IE 7 or IE 8 beta 1 – the rendering is slightly incorrect in that the in-flow content following the column-holder is rendered to the side of the column rather than below the column-holder.
Column content.
Inner column content.
In-flow content following the column.
In-flow content following the column-holder.