- From: Adam Kuehn <akuehn@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:00:48 -0500
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, www-style@w3.org
At 04:58 PM 3/8/2006, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >Adam Kuehn wrote: >>One technical reason is that the overflow property does not apply to tables. > >Why not? Tables are block-level, no? So per CSS21 it should apply, >it seems to me. You are quite right, it should. My mistake. >>However, the real reason appears to be that UAs (well, OK, Firefox >>- I didn't take the time to conduct universal testing) ignore all >>overflow values on any display: table* objects, even table cells, >>to which the property is supposed to apply. > >Actually, overflow:hidden does work when the cell actually >overflows. It just takes effort to get that to happen (eg >"table-layout: fixed"). Again, you are correct. It appears that Firefox supports the 'hidden' value on both table and table-cell elements when the table-layout is fixed, but does not support the 'scroll' value. No value appears to be supported for table-layout: auto. Obviously, my testing skills need some work, however, so you can take that assertion with a grain of salt. -Adam Kuehn
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