- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:58:31 -0600
- To: Adam Kuehn <akuehn@nc.rr.com>, www-style@w3.org
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. > 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"). -Boris
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