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Bug 15779 - Example of overflow situation confusingly focuses on absolutely positioned elements
Summary: Example of overflow situation confusingly focuses on absolutely positioned el...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CSS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: CSS Level 2 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Windows 3.1
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bert Bos
QA Contact: public-css-bugzilla
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Reported: 2012-01-29 18:46 UTC by Anton P
Modified: 2012-12-04 00:54 UTC (History)
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Description Anton P 2012-01-29 18:46:01 UTC 
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