Re: [CSS 21] overflow:hidden adjacent to a float

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> Ingo Chao wrote:
>> Browsers are rendering this differently, and they seem to move in
>> different directions, see composite screenshot
>> http://satzansatz.de/w3/bfcfloat.png
> 
> Note that part of that is due to the s/margin-box/border-box/ change you 
> point out.
> 
>>  Making the overflow-hidden box narrower so it
>> clips its own content even if there is no width set seems
>> counterintuitive to me.
> 
> Sadly, websites seem to somewhat depend on that behavior.  That was a 
> major reason for the change from Firefox 3 beta 5 to Firefox 3 RC1 that 
> you see in your screenshot.
> 
> -Boris


Boris, what websites depend on a behavior that is clearly undefined? 
Overflow boxes with either values of 'hidden' or 'auto' show no 
consistency across the various implementations when they are adjacent to 
floats (I will provide a screenshot later). Here is a test case with 'auto'.


http://css-class.com/test/css/viseffects/overflow-box-next-to-float.htm


I have brought this up before (chaotically :-) in January this year.


http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0265.html


Alan