11224 - "overflow: hidden" not working for the HTML element

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Braden]

The summary pretty much says it all. The page at the given URL should not have
a scroll bar, no matter what size the window is.

Comment 1

[troy]

I don't see why you think there should be no scrollbar. The 'overflow' property
(11.1.1) specifies what happens when content overflows the element's box.
Because the HTML element has a 'height' of 'auto' (I don't see any style rules
that specify an explicit height), its height depends on its content. That means
'overflow' doesn't apply here

Section 9.1.2 also address this issue when ralking about the height of the
initial containing block (the root of the document tree, HTML element in this
case):

"The height of the initial containing block may be specified with the 'height'
property for the root element. If this property has the value 'auto', the
containing block height will grow to accommodate the document's content."

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Based on troy's comments, marking as verified invalid.

Comment 3

[Braden]

Yup, I agree with Troy now. This has some interesting implications for
interoperability, though, given that IE is way off on this (setting "overflow:
hidden" on BODY eliminates the browser's primary scroll bar).

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

*** Bug 137294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Madhur Bhatia]

just for the records, the 'overflow:hidden' CSS property-value is now working 
for all html elements - build ID: 04/15/2002-10trunk on win2000

thx!!

Comment 6

[Anne (:annevk)]

Reopening, since this is a valid bug. I will mark this as a duplicate of bug
230554, which seems to be a regression per comment 5.

Comment 7

[Anne (:annevk)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230554 ***

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Um.... verflow:hidden is still working fine.  Please see my comments in bug
230554.  This bug was about overflow:hidden, not about auto and scroll (which
don't work, in fact).

There is no regression involved here.

Comment 9

[Anne (:annevk)]

Attachment: html{overflow:hidden;}

Actually, it is _not_ working fine. Scrolling with your mousewheel doesn't work
anymore, this does work with 'body{overflow:hidden;}' and since both rules
should be applied to the root element per CSS2 the behavior should be the same.

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Scrolling with your mousewheel doesn't work anymore

Sounds like a mousewheel bug, since scrolling with keyboard works fine on that
testcase you just attached.

Comment 11

[Anne (:annevk)]

Can't believe I missed that (ironically enough, my mouse just stopped working).
Should I file a new bug, reopen this one or hope it get's fixed by the _big_
scrolling bug about 'div{overflow:auto;}' etc?

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

File a new bug on the mousewheel issue, please.... Make sure roc and bryner are
cced.

Comment 13

[Anne (:annevk)]

-> Bug 233381
-> VERIFIED WORKSFORME