Re: Proposing content-hidden for background-image and img content

On Sep 9, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Alan Gresley wrote:

> <img src="image-x50px-y50px" alt="this is some alt text that is rather quite long">
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> If we were to hide the image and show the alt text while maintaining the box sizing, what becomes of the overflow?
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> Normally when images are disabled, a box expands (vertically I believe, never really tested) to contain all the alt text.

Implementations vary (wildly)… and vary depending on the size being specified (in HTML or CSS) or not
Opera - when size is specified - treats as overflow hidden
WebKit: no alt text visible
Gecko -  overflow: visible, but this only affects layout when the image is inline (default). Size is not respected in that case.

Didn't test with IE.

Here is a quick test case:
http://dev.l-c-n.com/CSS2/alt-text-missing-image.html



Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
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Received on Friday, 9 September 2011 02:21:55 UTC