Alan Gresley wrote: > > If so, then my understanding of the word propagated used in the spec > isn't correct. I understand propagated to mean inherited. Inheritance has a very specific meaning in CSS. This sentence refers to the behavior Philippe Wittenbergh quotes from 11.1: Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > That all refers to 11.1: > [quote] > UAs must apply the 'overflow' property set on the root element to the viewport > [/quote] Note that this behavior also applies to the <body> element in some cases, so it is not always the root element's value that gets propagated. # HTML UAs must instead apply the 'overflow' property from the BODY element # to the viewport, if the value on the HTML element is 'visible'. ~fantasaiReceived on Monday, 9 June 2008 14:30:13 GMT
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