145132 - Relative positioned DIVs don't get clipped

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Roger C. Soares]

Clip doesn't work on relative positioned DIVs.

Comment 1

[Roger C. Soares]

Attachment: Two DIVs with clip rect defined

Two DIVs with the same CSS atributes. One is set with position:relative and the
other with position:relative.

The DIV with relative position doesn't honor the clipping area.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See the discussion starting at bug 87839, comment 17.  Summary:

1)  our current behavior is consistent with NS4 and IE
2)  The CSS Working Group was going to make that behavior the "clip" behavior and
    make the current "clip" property be called "overflow-clip"
3)  This change never happened and no one seems to know what's going on with it.

I'd say this is WONTFIX in light of bug 87839, comment 25

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

roc, hixie, dbaron, talk amongst yourselves and figure out what the deal with
this issue is?  ;)

Comment 4

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Actually, I think there's a real bug here. The yellow div should look just like
the absolute div.

Or maybe there's two real bugs, since I think the background of the absolute DIV
should be 54px high (since 'clip' shouldn't clip the background).

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

'clip' doesn't apply to relatively positioned elements per the "lost clip
errata", IIRC.

Comment 6

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

CSS 2.1 agrees with you. Therefore, WONTFIX