Block level link elements in grid layout, quirk in chrome - html

I apologize if there is something very obvious I need to correct here, but I am stumped on this one. I'm just try to layout a series of links (styled as block level elements) in a grid layout. I've boiled down what I'm trying to do into it's most simple state here: http://cdpn.io/JLdne
In Safari and Firefox it renders as I would expect, but in Chrome (of all browsers) the 2nd the 3rd link elements are shifted down another 32 pixels.
Part of me is saying I may have found a weird bug in chrome, but I'm thinking the more likely thing is I'm just doing something wrong. Is there a better way to do this? I tried changing the a elements to display as inline-blocks, rather than using floats but it started to cause other issues in my layout. Thoughts would be appreciated.

remove clear:both on the div class

Seems like this only effects Chrome 25... just tested using Chrome 24 on Spoon.net and it renders the same as Firefox

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Chrome rendering error with position absolute and css3

I've been wrecking myself trying to figure out what is going on with this big of html. It renders correctly in latest Firefox, Safari and on chrome canary, but normal chrome renders these weird lines and I have no idea why.
I've create a JS fiddle with an excerpt of my code, it's part of a much larger project, but I'm seeing the rendering issue in the fiddle as well as in my app. I've attached a screen shot of what I'm seeing in the fiddle for reference.
Fiddle
Bug screenshot:
The red middle line shouldn't be there as well as the line to the left of "close". This is just one example, as I mouse over the modal I get lines appearing all over the place.
It makes for a less than stellar question as it's difficult to replicate. Resizing the browser helps to show the error. My fiddle has quite a bit of html and css. I don't expect anyone to actually comb through it and fix the issue. I just want to be thorough in presenting the problem.
I've tried looking online but I haven't been able to find anyone reporting the same issue as far as I can tell.
If anyone has any ideas on what may be causing this, how to fix it or point me to a relevant link/SO question I'd be very grateful.
Things I've ruled out/investigated:
- not caused by something else on the page, as I extracted it into jsfiddle and it's still hapenneing. I also removed the body content using the console in my app and it didn't make a difference.
- I dont think the gradients or transitions are causing it, as removing them didn't seem to have an effect
- possibly/probably related to absolute positioning? When I removed the position absolute on the main wrapper element I didn't see this occuring.
- I read that applying a z-index to these elements might help, but it did nothing for these issues.
TL,DR: Why does google chrome, but not canary or safari, show rendering errors on absolutely positioned elements with liberal use of css3 gradients, shadows and transitions?
When I remove the '-webkit-transform: scale(0.95)' on #vfs_uploader and the '-webkit-transform: scale(1)' on #vfs_uploader.visible, it displays fine: http://jsfiddle.net/cjc343/fzqPT/2/
I don't know how this affects Safari or if it has other implications in Chrome, but it does not appear to otherwise affect the layout in the example.

Why is my layout broken only in Firefox and IE8 (not 9)?

I noticed today that a website that I've completed months ago was not showing well on Firefox and IE8 (works fine in IE9). It's quite old now and I'm pretty sure that I tested browser compatibility at the time but I guess one does make mistakes.
Problem is I can't seem to understand the problem. Basically I have a left floated sidebar with a fixed position but it renders on the right (outside its container) on FF and IE8. I could always build the layout again from scratch (it uses Skeleton Grid system) but would still like to understand the problem.
Example page that's broken on the website.
Try to open it with various browsers and see for yourself. Also, if someone views it right on FF, I'm interested too.
Thanks a lot!
Edit: I'm not asking for a whole debugging. Just if someone knows of this issue.
Edit2: Validator links are irrelevant here. I checked it already and they're basically prefixes for css and CMS-related for html.
Edit3: I fixed it and prepared a kinda complete answer to post but as I'm a new user, I can't answer my own question in the next 7 hours... so here it is:
I just sorted the whole thing out with hints from your answers (thank
you!).
Basically, it's something to do with how browsers handle floats on
fixed elements. Imagine we're dealing with successive "float:left"
element, which is the case in most grid system (960gs, bootstrap,
etc.).
Here's how browser will handle these elements without fixed
positioning: http://jsfiddle.net/cPjdK/ And with float:right :
http://jsfiddle.net/cPjdK/1/
Now what if we have a very long third column and want to fix the first
(my example)? Well it basically disables the floats because fixed
elements are out of the flow. http://jsfiddle.net/cPjdK/9/
So you have to position them absolutely (or with margins in my case)
http://jsfiddle.net/cPjdK/6/
Now what about my website? The fixed elements were floated anymore and
the whole grid system kinda fell apart. Fixing this appeared to be a
long work. But, for some reason, replacing my "float:left" properties
on floated elements with "float:right" basically fixed it. Why did it
fix it? Why was it not working on FF and IE8 but appeared fine on IE9
and Chrome.
I have no idea.
But it looks fine now (after a few tweaks) and I've already been paid
so...
Problem solved but question unanswered, sorry...
You have a FIXED positioned element without giving it any coordinates.
Try giving it something like:
#side-right{
position:fixed;
top:0;
left:0;
}

CSS 'clear:both;" not working as expected for IE7 browsers. No problems in IE8/IE9, Firefox, Chrome, etc

I've received several complaints from visitors to one of my websites. Individuals contacting us regarding these issues are using IE7, running on Windows XP. I can replicate the issue either by running IE7 itself, or by displaying the site in IE8/IE9 in compatibility mode, with IE7 document mode selected.
This page contains a registration form with fieldwraps that float:left, and occasionally are assigned a "clear:both" to start a new line of fields. Again, the desired output can be viewed in any modern, standards compliant browser, or even in IE8/IE9.
If you need any clarification of the problem, I'm happy to provide it, and greatly appreciate any assistance you can offer!
You are mixing floats and clears in a bad way. There are the DIVs with the labels and the fields and you just need to float these divs, but you are also floating the fields and labels inside the DIVs without clearing them. This is a Problem in IE7.
The Clear: both needs to be on a separate div after the two elements you want to clear. Failing that you can wrap the fields you want to clear in a clear fix using the :after pseudo element.
See this thread: What methods of ‘clearfix’ can I use?
Also sometimes with IE7 if you don't force haslayout it can mess around with your floats. The easiest way to do this is to add zoom:1; to your ie7 stylesheet.

CSS issue in IE 9 - boxes collapsing left to right

I'll start by saying this is not my work, but I am trying to figure out how to fix it nonetheless... Here is the page in question:
http://www.getredwood.com/pro/
The three content areas at the bottom are the part in question. It looks fine when I look at it in Firefox or Chrome, but in IE 9, everything collapses left to right and the boxes actually overlap each other a bit. The CSS that's in there now looks a bit of a mess and I'm not sure where to begin. Would be most grateful for any ideas. Thanks!
I'm not sure whether I need to post the CSS code here or not...it should be visible through "Inspect Element" in FF, but if anyone can't see it, please let me know...
This lies within the compatibly that browsers have, what you will need to do is use javascript to determine which browser is in use then create a custom style for each, thus allowing you to make it work on any and all browsers
Here are some links that should help you out
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html
http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_browser.asp
Best of luck to you
it is very bad CSS and HTML coding...
try to reduce width of each 3 divs, should be solve your problem.

Floated div dropping below others in IE and FF

I'm having an odd problem with some floated divs on this page that I'm working on. There are 3 of them across the page, with 1em margins between. In Chrome they line up perfectly, but in IE and FF, the right hand one drops a little - but not all the way below. I thought this might be best described with a picture, please see below:
I can't work out which bit of the CSS is causing this - I've been through the new FF code inspector and highlighted all block level objects with the webdev toolbar but can't see anything that would cause such a drop.
I did wonder if it was something within the JS twitter feed causing it, but I've swapped round the Twitter and "Update" boxes and it's always the right-hand one. I've also tried removing additional elements from the page - everything between the menu and these three boxes.
I must admit, I'm at my wit's end! Can anyone spot something obvious I've missed? The CSS is fairly large, and I'm not sure which bit to show, so I haven't copied it in in, but will do if anyone desires. Otherwise everything can be viewed at http://www.woodexperts.com
Change width: 15.25em in div#main div.tricolumn to width: 15.24em
That should take care of the issue.
I understand that this is a hack, but if IE is the only browser causing problems, you might want to consider IE conditional comments that restrict certain styles only for IE:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms537512(v=vs.85).aspx