Re: [css3-multicol] Overflow and Columns

On Jan 17, 2008 4:01 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:

> I think we should specify that column boxes should not have overflow
> in the column height direction (unless there's a fixed height on the
> multicol element and the overflowing element is both too tall and
> unbreakable), and that overflowing content within the column boxes
> must be taken into account when balancing.
>

Do you still think this after our discussion in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404215 ?

For those who don't want to read the bug, the problem is that you can have
content which always overflows the column height; for example the last child
of the columns element might be position:relative and top:100px.

Rob
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