FF Mac overflow bug?

[calliepeck]

I'm sure other people have seen this but I can't find any responses on how to fix it. I occassionally browse to sites where the text overflows its container (and I think it's always a serif font). Now it's happening to my design.

In FF when I've set a box to


#manifesto {
clear: both;
float: right;
width: 290px;
margin: 5px 0;
padding: 5px;
font: 10px Georgia, "Hoeffler Text", Times, serif;
}


My text overflows the box. It's fine if I enlarge or decrease font size. Padding, margins, float have nothing to do with it....

Anyone know the fix? I'd hate to lose my Georgia.

[Centauri]

We would need to see the fuill code, or a link to the site online. There could be many reasons for this.

[calliepeck]

http://www.ogilvydurham.com/offline/blog.php

You can see it happening in the upper right hand green box, starting with "Welcome to Ogilvy Durham"

[ray326]

I don't see it in Fx on Windows.

[calliepeck]

As far as I can tell, it's just in mac FF...that's the only browser that I've ever seen that bug in.

[Centauri]

Looks ok to ma as weel with Fx on Windows, but messed up considerably on IE6 - may have something to do with the validation errors (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ogilvydurham.com%2Foffline%2Fblog.php&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0).

[WebJoel]

I don't see this in IE6 or Fx either, but there are some coding issues: failure to properly close "<img> tags with the proper " />".

I tend to not worry about why something doesn't work when I see failed validation. Usually, that is the problem. :)

See image attached:

[calliepeck]

Sorry, it's a working file so I've been coding on the page all day. It's definitely not a validation problem though (it's happening on my clean pages as well). I know IE6 is off--I haven't approached my css from IE yet.

Does anyone on a mac have FF that is familiar with this problem?

[Centauri]

It's definitely not a validation problem though (it's happening on my clean pages as well).

It might have been better, then, to have given us a link to one of the pages which does validate and that exhibits this problem ....

[calliepeck]

it's harder to see on most of them. And the page validated at time of posting, again I'm sorry.

http://ogilvydurham.com/offline/authors.php?id=42