Re: proposed change for scrollbars in size calculations

Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
> It appears there is an agreement for the main question of this thread: if width or height is specified on an element with overflow:scroll or overflow:auto, any scrollbars sizes don't affect dimensions of its border box but instead are subtracted from specified width/height.
> 
> There is a broad interop on these test cases:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/att-0089/scroll2.htm. 100% browsers use the model where no values of overflow (including 'scroll' and 'auto') affect dimensions of border box.
> 
> To make the spec match the implementations, I propose the following updates to section 10:
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> 10.3.3 and 10.3.7: Insert (immediately after the formula)
> 
>         If 'width' is not 'auto' and scrollbar width is not zero,
>         subtract scrollbar width from 'width'.

Alex, it is just enough to say
          If 'width' is not 'auto' subtract scrollbar width from 'width'.

"and ..." part is redundant there. Or I missed something in principle?

> 
> 10.6.4: Insert (immediately after the formula)
> 
>         If 'height' is not 'auto' and scrollbar height is not zero,
>         subtract scrollbar height from 'height'.
> 

Here too.

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Andrew Fedoniouk.

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Received on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 08:02:54 UTC