- From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:44:28 +0100
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- CC: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Niels Matthijs <niels.matthijs@internetarchitects.be>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Brad Kemper wrote: > On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> Even when I've used overflow:hidden for correct reasons - I really >> do want the overflow to be hidden - I sometimes have children that >> I *do* want to 'overflow'. Often these children are abspos and >> just positioned outside of the block. > > I brought up the idea of overflowed abspos children being visible > beyond the clipped box a couple years ago, but there were some hairy > problems associated with how that would would work with scrollbars > that they might overlap, if I recall correctly. > IIRC this issue arose during discussion of a proposal regarding the z-index of scrollbars. I believe the situation as currently widely implemented works in a satisfactory way: when an element O with non-'visible' overflow comes strictly between an absolutely positioned element A and its containing block, A does not interact with the scrollbars of O in any special way. Instead A either lies "on top of" or "underneath" O and its scrollbars depending on the z-index of A. Cheers, Anton Prowse http://dev.moonhenge.net
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