160660 - Excess scrollbars on BODY element

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Thor Larholm]

Putting overflow:scroll on the BODY element will yield 2 scrollbars on the page 
instead of 1.

Comment 1

[Robert Ginda]

see testcase in the url of this bug

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

dup of Bug 47960 ?

Comment 3

[Thor Larholm]

no, 47960 is a different issue regarding the placement of the scrollbar.

This bug is about how multiple scrollbars are displayed instead of one.

Comment 4

[Aaron Kaluszka]

This IS a dup of bug 47960.  The testcase in the other bug just doesn't have two
scrollbars because the page isn't long enough.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47960 ***

Comment 5

[Aaron Kaluszka]

On second thought, this isn't really a dup, its just plain invalid.  See bug
47960 for the reasons why.  I'm going to reopen because maybe we should do
something else in quirks mode.

Comment 6

[Thor Larholm]

on third thought, this should not be marked INVALID as you should never view 
the BODY element as a separate element in quirks mode.

Only in standards mode is BODY no longer the documentElement. In quirks mode, 
there is no difference between BODY and HTML - that difference only exists in 
standards mode.

In quirks mode, and in retrospect to prior usage during the last years (IE4+, 
Opera), setting the CSS attribute overflow on BODY is the same as manipulating 
the HTML scroll attribute on BODY - which deals with document scrollbars, not 
the scrollbars on the BODY element itself.

Comment 7

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

No, quirks only exist when major web pages or significant numbers of real web
pages break because of something.  Otherwise we follow standards.

Comment 8

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

invalid per comments