Re: [css3-background] Curved borders intersecting backgrounds of inner boxes

On Saturday 2010-04-10 17:14 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> As far as I know, in the absence of border-radius, border-image, or
> inset box-shadow it is impossible to make a nested box's background
> overlap a containing box's border.  It seems to me that putting the
> nested background under the containing border (and inset shadow) and
> clipping it to the curve is always the right thing.

Well, nested boxes' backgrounds can extend way out of their
containing element once explicit heights, negative margins, and a
bunch of other features are used.  Clipping those boxes is what
'overflow: hidden' is for.  And I think once browsers fix their bugs
with border-radius on elements with 'overflow: hidden' (such as
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459144 ) you'll get the
behavior that you want when 'overflow' is 'hidden'.

Are you proposing that certain clipping happen under some conditions
even when 'overflow' is visible?

-David

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