128418 - Relative positioned div clipped offscreen without scrollbar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect, P4)

Description

[Thomas Ziehm]

<div style="position:relative; top:35em;">
------------------------------------------ 1<br>
------------------------------------------ 2<br>
------------------------------------------ 3<br>
------------------------------------------ 4<br>
------------------------------------------ 5<br>
------------------------------------------ 6<br>
------------------------------------------ 7<br>
------------------------------------------ 8<br>
------------------------------------------ 9<br>
------------------------------------------ 0<br>
</div>

I got no (vertical) scrollbar ... is this normal ? Ok the IE also display's no 
scrollbar. But if I use a table construct the IE shows the vertical scrollbar 
but not the mozilla. Is there a HTML / CSS Tag I forgot to use. I 
tried "overflow" (CSS 2.0) but nothing happened ...

Perhaps you have to change the "top:35em" part to got the correct position, 
partly outside the frame ...

Bye

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

it works with position:absolute

-> Style System

Can you attach a "table construct" testcase ?
(Use the "Create New Attachment link")
 

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

er... this is layout.

Comment 3

[James Lariviere]

Attachment: testcase

Attaching a testcase :-)

The issue here is that the <div> box is not large (height) enough to take up
more than the viewport so no scroll bar is triggered for mozilla (IE also). 
Because the div is positioned to a point where most is hidden below the
viewport, you can't see the whole div.	If you change the position from
relative to absolute, mozilla (and IE) adds the scrollbar.

If this is confirmed as a new rendering bug can someone please change the
summary because it seems wrong. This sounds better to me -- Relative positioned
div clipped offscreen without scrollbar...

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

Confirming in the March 1 OS X build (2002-03-01-03)

Comment 5

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 157947 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Platform/OS -> All due to information in bug 157947.

Comment 7

[John Morrison]

*** Bug 168440 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Kevin Berkheiser]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030310

If I understand this correctly, then this seems to work in 1.3.  Could someone
verify?

Comment 9

[Dean Peterson]

Works for me, 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030402

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This almost certainly got fixed when bug 174149 got fixed.