- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:29:36 -0700
- To: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
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'. ~fantasai
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