Re: [css-overflow] overflow-x, overflow-y and tables

HI all,

Could I get some direction on this? Is the exclusion of tables from
overflow-x and overflow-y by confining them to block-containers deliberate?
Maybe I'm just being dumb and overflow-x and overflow-y can apply safely to
the 'table wrapper box', it's just the table box inside it that's excluded
by the language 'In CSS 2.2, a block-level box is also a block container
box unless it is a table box or the principal box of a replaced element.'

It's hard to tell what the intention is and I'd like to make Blink do the
right thing here.

Thanks,
Robert



On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 6:58 PM Robert Hogan <robhogan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Per https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow-3/#overflow-properties
> overflow, overflow-x and overflow-y only apply to block containers in
> CSS2 land. To me, this means that the resolution of conflicting
> overflow-x and overflow-y values is either undefined or UAs shouldn't
> allow overflow-x/overflow-y to be specified for tables in the first
> place. It looks like everyone does allow the latter so is the next
> best step to define in css-overflow the resolution everyone currently
> uses in practice, which is to resolve 'hidden' to 'visible' if x and y
> conflict?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>