- From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 10:10:20 +0900
- To: Justice <justice360@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
> On May 30, 2016, at 18:24, Justice <justice360@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > According the spec, for the same element, the computed values of these two props cannot be visible+hidden at the same time. Does anybody know why it is designed this way? Or it's just because of compatibilities? Besides history and compatibility requirements, I think the two main reasons are: * overflow: hidden does more than just hide the overflow, it also makes turns the element into a Block Formatting Context (Floats don't escape, margins of children don't collapse with margins of parents...). Being a BFC in one dimension only is not a thing that exists. * if an element could be overflow-x: visible and overflow-y: scroll, you would have a vertical scrollbar on the right (typically) side of the element, overlapping with the visibly overflowing content in the inline direction, which is terrible. Same for visible + auto. This isn't necessarily a problem for visible+hidden, but at least it explains why the other values cannot be combined with visible. - Florian
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