Re: [css-overflow] computed value of overflow-x -y from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2014-11-24 (www-style@w3.org from November 2014)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:00:19 -0800
To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDArdASAqi=aaLYvtuU6WxHRmXKvezrZAPk1s=0wu5cfvg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote:
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-overflow-3/#overflow-properties
>
> CSS overflow states that the if one of 'overflow-x' and 'overflow-y' has a specified value of 'visible', and there other has a specified value of one of the scrolling values (hidden, scroll or auto), the scrolling value computes to itself, and ‘visible' computes to ‘hidden’
>
> However, browsers interoperably (checked Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Presto Opera) have ‘visible’ compute to ‘auto’ in that situation.

As they should.  Having visible overflow that also overflows in the
other dimension and thus is cut off by an invisible line is visually
confusing.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 24 November 2014 21:01:06 UTC