The 'clip' property applies only to absolutely positioned elements, why?

• From: Martijn <martijn.martijn@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:28:34 +0200
• To: www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <6c97b8b10510131028l4e970773l4cdf8a2ddffaddcf@mail.gmail.com>

From:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visufx.html#clipping
"The 'clip' property applies only to absolutely positioned elements."

I'm just wondering, why this restriction?

Regards,
Martijn

Received on Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:29:05 UTC