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Why does CSS2.1 define overflow values other than “visible” to establish a new block formatting context?

I asked about this on the mailing list on your behalf; the thread can be found here. In summary, this has to do with scrolling content for the most part: Fundamentally, because if the spec didn’t say this, then having floats intersect with something that’s scrollable would require the browser to rewrap (around intruding floats) … Read more

Check if an element’s content is overflowing?

The element may be overflown vertically, horizontally or both. This function will return you a boolean value if the DOM element is overflown: function isOverflown(element) { return element.scrollHeight > element.clientHeight || element.scrollWidth > element.clientWidth; } function isOverflown(element) { return element.scrollHeight > element.clientHeight || element.scrollWidth > element.clientWidth; } var els = document.getElementsByClassName(‘demos’); for (var i = … Read more

How to display scroll bar onto a html table

Something like this? http://jsfiddle.net/TweNm/ The idea is to wrap the <table> in a non-statically positioned <div> which has an overflow:auto CSS property. Then position the elements in the <thead> absolutely. #table-wrapper { position:relative; } #table-scroll { height:150px; overflow:auto; margin-top:20px; } #table-wrapper table { width:100%; } #table-wrapper table * { background:yellow; color:black; } #table-wrapper table thead … Read more

How do promotion rules work when the signedness on either side of a binary operator differ? [duplicate]

This is outlined explicitly in §5/9: Many binary operators that expect operands of arithmetic or enumeration type cause conversions and yield result types in a similar way. The purpose is to yield a common type, which is also the type of the result. This pattern is called the usual arithmetic conversions, which are defined as … Read more

CSS overflow-x: visible; and overflow-y: hidden; causing scrollbar issue

After some serious searching it seems i’ve found the answer to my question: from: http://www.brunildo.org/test/Overflowxy2.html In Gecko, Safari, Opera, ‘visible’ becomes ‘auto’ also when combined with ‘hidden’ (in other words: ‘visible’ becomes ‘auto’ when combined with anything else different from ‘visible’). Gecko 1.8, Safari 3, Opera 9.5 are pretty consistent among them. also the W3C … Read more

Overflow-x:hidden doesn’t prevent content from overflowing in mobile browsers

Creating a site wrapper div inside the <body> and applying the overflow-x:hidden to the wrapper instead of the <body> or <html> fixed the issue. It appears that browsers that parse the <meta name=”viewport”> tag simply ignore overflow attributes on the html and body tags. Note: You may also need to add position: relative to the … Read more