Re: overflow: scroll (Trying again)

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Sigurd Lerstad wrote:

> I've read the specs (I think), but I don't see they mention that "overflow:
> scroll" creates a scrollbar. Can someone confirm that scrollbars can't be
> accomplished in an svg document (according to the specs), as opposed to in
> html documents?

Confirmed. :)

Well.... the viewer could create scrollbars when zoomed in but that
is a different thing (and no viewer actually does it).

Dean


> --
> Sigurd Lerstad
> 
> > Hello Sigurd,
> >
> > According to the W3C's SVG specification (The September 04 2001
> > recommendation), there are many circumstances in which the overflow CSS
> > property has no effect. It only works on elements that establish a new
> > viewport, like svg-elements (I'm referring to the elements with the tag
> > <svg>, and I assume you mean those as well. This name is quite
> confusing.),
> > on pattern- and marker-elements. It won't work on the outermost
> > svg-element, the root element of your SVG-document. A clipping path in the
> > shape of a rectangle will be created if the overflow property will be set
> > to 'scroll' or 'hidden'. You can read more about this in the above
> > mentioned SVG specification, in paragraph 14.3.3.
> > I don't know how Adobe has implemented the overflow property or how the
> > scroll value will work. I only know that it has been implemented in
> Adobe's
> > SVG Viewer since version 1.0. (According to the PDF-document you can
> > download along with the viewer.) To me, it won't make much sense if
> > scrollbars will appear next to pattern- or marker-elements. I don't know
> > about any new viewports, since I haven't tested this out yet.
> > With regards,
> >
> > Frank Steggink
> >
> > On Saturday, September 22, 2001 15:52, Sigurd Lerstad
> > [SMTP:sigler@bredband.no] wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is adding a "overflow: scroll" in style on svg element supposed to add a
> > > scrollbar? I can't get it to do that
> > > in Adobe SVG 2.0
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sigurd Lerstad
> > >

Received on Monday, 24 September 2001 20:33:46 UTC