160947 - DIV clips child but not child.child when overflow set to hidden

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[pieter theron]

<div style="position:absolute; top:10px; left:10px; height:100px; width:100px; 
background:blue; overflow:hidden;">
	<div style="position:absolute; top:10px; left:10px; height:100px; 
width:100px; background:green;">
		<div style="position:absolute; top:10px; left:10px; 
height:100px; width:100px; background:red;">
		</div>
	</div>
</div>


As far as I understand the spec both the red and green divs should be clipped 
because of the blue div having a overflow of 'hidden'. This is the behaviour on 
internet explorer. In Mozilla, the green div is clipped, but the red div 
overflows. Am I missing something here?

this is the version I'm using:

Mozilla 1.1a
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I cannot reproduce the problem with that testcase; Mozilla 1.1beta on Win2000.

Could you please retest with a more recent build?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mail from Pieter:

Hi Boris

I upgraded to the lates build and the bug is gone!...

Comment 4

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

best way to get rid of bugs :)