1086211 - The italic content of a container doesn't overflow when it is floating

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Floats, defect)

Description

[Guillaume Marty [:gmarty]]

When a container has overflow hidden and float, its italic content doesn't overflow and depending on the characters used can be cropped (mainly in CJK or languages from India).
Here is a test case:
http://jsbin.com/muhala/
See how the Japanese word overflows or not on the red background.

I compared to other rendering engines and got 3 different behaviours:
* Gecko: only the container with float doesn't overflow
* Chrome: all the containers overflow
* IE8: none of the containers overflow (and sorry I don't have a more up to date IE at hand)

Given the tests above it is still unclear what is the expected behaviour here.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Per spec the "overflow" property only applies to block containers.  Which means in the provided testcase only the floats have an "overflow:hidden" applying to them (from the .italic style).  Which is the behavior you see in Gecko.