Re: Any events fired when an overflow:hidden container causes some child elements to get hidden?

Hi Francois,

Yes, this should solve my problem when it is implemented by major browsers.

Cheers,
Behrang Saeedzadeh
http://www.behrang.org


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:52 PM, François REMY <
francois.remy.dev@outlook.com> wrote:

> My belief is that this use case is solved by CSS Regions and Named Flows.
>
> The first thing you have to do is to put all the buttons of the menu into
> a named flow.
>
> Your primary menu zone would be the first region where elements would be
> added and, when it overflows, you can be notified by using
> the “regionOverflow” property on the element (changes will trigger
> the ‘regionLayoutUpdate’ event).
>
> When listening to this event, if you notice any overflow, you can make
> a “more” button appear and use its ‘menu’ as a second region target for the
> named flow: ie all buttons that were not flushed into the primary zone will
> flow naturally into this section.
>
> Do you think this is solving your problem?
>
>
>
>  *De :* Behrang Saeedzadeh
> *Envoyé :* 25 mars 2013 10:16
> *À :* W3C CSS Mailing List
> *Objet :* Any events fired when an overflow:hidden container causes some
> child elements to get hidden?
>
> Hi,
>
> Let's pretend that there's a tall vertical div that is used as a container
> for menu items, similar to Google+ or the upcoming Facebook News Feed.
>
> When the height of the browser is reduced some menu items get hidden. In
> such a case, usually a more button is shown that when clicked shows the
> hidden elements.
>
> One way to do this is by listening to window resize events but that might
> cause some smoothness issues. It should be possible to hack a solution
> using dynamically generated media queries as well. Google+, I assume to
> reduce complexity and lack of a reliable solution, always shows the more
> button no matter if anything is hidden or not.
>
> But I think it would be helpful to know when an overflown element is
> hidden/shown via events. What do you think? And is this something that is
> being worked on?
>
> Cheers,
> Behrang Saeedzadeh
> http://www.behrang.org
>