diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 524bbd4d..e93192d8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ NEWS ( CHANGELOG and HISTORY )                                     HTMLPurifier
   from HTML Purifier output)
 . HTMLPurifier_ConfigSchema->validate() deprecated in favor of
   HTMLPurifier_VarParser->parse()
+. Integers auto-cast into float type by VarParser.
 
 3.0.0, released 2008-01-06
 # HTML Purifier is PHP 5 only! The 2.1.x branch will be maintained
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/VarParser/Flexible.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/VarParser/Flexible.php
index 1c5ddcb7..a2041fdd 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/VarParser/Flexible.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/VarParser/Flexible.php
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_VarParser_Flexible extends HTMLPurifier_VarParser
                 if (is_string($var) && ctype_digit($var)) $var = (int) $var;
                 return $var;
             case 'float':
-                if (is_string($var) && is_numeric($var)) $var = (float) $var;
+                if ((is_string($var) && is_numeric($var)) || is_int($var)) $var = (float) $var;
                 return $var;
             case 'bool':
                 if (is_int($var) && ($var === 0 || $var === 1)) {