[css-overflow] pathological fragment box generation

I searched the issues to see if this problem had already been noted -
apologies if I missed it.

There will be some cases where overflow:fragments will generate fragment
boxes that can not fit any content fragment, and pathological cases where
box generation could enter an infinite loop, like this:

<style>
  .too-big {
    height: 100px;
  }
  .too-small {
    height: 50px;
    overflow: fragments;
  }
</style>
<div class="too-small">
  <div class="too-big"></div>
</div>

We will need to have a way of terminating box generation when needed. The
simplest thing would be to stop generating boxes as soon as a single box
fails to be assigned a content fragment, but there will be cases where a
single box or series of boxes fail, but boxes down the line would succeed,
such as adding this to the above:

  .too-small::nth-fragment(even) {
    height: 150px;
  }


So it might be useful to describe a way to search through the fragment box
styling to determine whether terminating box generation is truly required.

Thanks,

Alan

Received on Friday, 5 April 2013 03:36:51 UTC