15779 2012-01-29 18:46:01 +0000 Example of overflow situation confusingly focuses on absolutely positioned elements 2012-12-04 00:54:31 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSS CSS Level 2 unspecified All Windows 3.1 NEW P2 normal --- 1 antonsforums bert public-css-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 63292 0 antonsforums 2012-01-29 18:46:01 +0000 Reported by Anton Prowse 11.1 (Overflow and clipping) provides the following example of when overflow occurs: # A descendant box is positioned absolutely, partly outside the box. # Such boxes are not always clipped by the overflow property on their # ancestors; specifically, they are not clipped by the overflow of # any ancestor between themselves and their containing block s/absolutely// s/Such/Absolutely positioned/ since relpos boxes may also overflow, and it is confusing to not mention them; but the second sentence (introduced as the resolution to Issue 161 [http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-161]) only applies to abspos boxes. Conversation begins: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Feb/0308.html Bug description: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0001.html