Bug 15011 – Image loading causes misplacement of positioned footer.

• Component: New Bugs
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Alastair Campbell]

To reproduce, go to the address in the URL and observe the position of the footer, a dark blue bar (with an "About this site" link) that should be at the bottom of the page.

Depending on how quick the connection/server/computer is (I'm not sure which), the footer could be between the lower comments and halfway up the page.

This will only happen on the first load of the page, a re-load will put the footer where it should be. Emptying the cache doesn't seem to work for seeing the bug again, but it happens on any of the posts with large pictures in the content area.

The #footer is positioned absolutely at the bottom of the #mainwrap. I admit it probably doesn't need to be absolutely positioned, but it's a leftover from when I was doing a fixed header/footer experiment.

I guess that Webkit should work out where the footer goes after it knows how much height the images will take up?

It may be related to Bug 12797, but not quite the same. I did try to do a cut down test-case, but that didn't reproduce the issue, so I think you actually need a lot of the content & 'stuff' for it to happen.

[Alastair Campbell]

Created attachment 16025 [details]
Screen shot of footer location on load.

[Gavin Sherlock]

I'm unable to reproduce this - it should probably be closed.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Works fine for me in Safari 3.2.1, too. Please feel free to re-open if this still happens for you.