- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:57:58 -0800
- To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
David Hyatt wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2009, at 2:07 PM, fantasai wrote: > >> >> I got a question about this bit of text in 11.1 >> <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visufx.html>: >> >> # In certain cases, a box may overflow, meaning its content lies >> # partly or entirely outside of the box, e.g.: >> # ... >> # A descendent box is positioned absolutely, partly outside the box. >> # Such boxes are not always clipped by the overflow property on >> # their ancestors. >> >> Can't figure out what that "Such boxes are not always clipped" sentence >> is talking about. An implementor was wondering if it meant abspos >> descendents are /not/ supposed to be clipped by "overflow: hidden". >> I'm quite sure that's not the case, so, perhaps we could either clarify >> what is meant or remove the sentence. > > overflow clipping follows the containing block hierarchy. An > unpositioned element with overflow:hidden that has an absolutely > positioned child will not clip that child. However a relative > positioned element with overflow:hidden that has an absolutely > positioned child would clip that child, since it is the containing block > for the child. Ok, that's what I thought it was talking about. I think, given the intent of the section and what it says about other things... that that sentence should be removed. ~fantasai
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