- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:57:05 -0700
- To: David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:45 PM, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote: > Tab, > > As the one who started this thread with my confusion, let me say that that > is a very helpful diagram. Thanks! (And it doubles as a CSS > brain-teaser--for the longest time I could not figure out how you got the > scrollbar triangles.) > > A few comments: > > I think the existing stuff in the spec uses the term "edge" rather than > area. Area makes more sense to me, but edge might be more consistent. > > I'd change "padding width" to "padding area width" or "padding edge width". > > I think the dotted and dashed lines around the content and padding areas > look like borders, which confuses me since they are inside the border. > > I think you should set a background-color on the outermost div (and then > set it back to white or transparent on the next one in) so that the border > area looks like a border. > > Since the example demonstrates horizontally-overflowing content, it should > probably have a horizontal scrollbar as well as the vertical one. Changes made: http://www.xanthir.com/diagrams/scrollwidth-clientwidth.html ~TJ
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