Re: padding lost in overflow

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> After thinking through it more, yeah, you're right.  We don't want to
>> *actually* mess with the boxes, but we *do* want to allow people to
>> use 'padding' for the end edges of their scrollable content the same
>> way they can with the start edges.
>>
>> So yeah, just growing the overflow area by the amount of the padding
>> along the end edges would work.
>>
>
> I'm not totally opposed to that idea, but there is still going to be
> confusion about what the padding box and content boxes of the scrolled
> element actually are --- in authors' minds, if not the spec. So I'm not
> convinced it's a clear win. I'd like to hear the opinions of more people.
>

I don't think authors are confused except that padding doesn't seem to do
anything once you use overflow: auto or scroll which is annoying since
authors want to add space at the bottom and can't. I suppose everyone just
ends up adding another wrapper element inside the overflow area to work
around the "browser being broken", that's certainly what I've observed (and
done myself).

- E