Re: extract elements from within the "overflow viewport" ?

Il 02/06/2013 08:24, Tab Atkins Jr. ha scritto:
> Why are you using overflow:hidden here? Are you floating the <a>s to 
> make a horizontal bar, and need the <div> to contain them? Better to 
> switch to Flexbox, which makes horizontal bars easy without these 
> kinds of hacks. ~TJ 

it was just an example, overflow:hidden will be used also with flexbox
the only way to hide the overflowing content is always 
overflow:hidden|scroll, but you don't always want it applied to all elements

that's not a hack, in my opinion a tooltip/menu that is related to some 
element, should be inside that element
events will be dispatched and retargeted in the proper way and 
stylesheets will work as they should do

i used flexbox (mozilla's) and that was a frequent issue

another solution could be creating a new position value (for example, 
position:popup)
that behaves like position:fixed (that looks to be "outside of any 
element") but with top|bottom|left|right calculated releatively to the 
closest position:relative|absolute ancestor

Received on Sunday, 2 June 2013 12:13:14 UTC