209633 - stack child elements are not contained (not clipped even using overflow:hidden)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[rvj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

In the earlier <bulletinboard/> element I believe it was possible to have  a
number of child elements which are hidden because the x,y offsets of the child
elements were located outside of the containing box .

The current <stack/> element does not permit this and seems to have rather
unpredicatable behavior. 
a) child elements are not contained within the box but float above
b) the stack box attempts to expand to include them.

Even using overflow:hidden has no effect. I assumed that this behavior had been
reported as a bug but apparently not. 

The test case that follows has the stack element set to flex="1" . In otherwords
the fixed width boxes either side of it should be displayed. In reality the
stack element is expanded to the right.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[rvj]

Attachment: an example of uncontained stack container child elements

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Ben Karel [eschew]]

On Windows XP SP2, Under both
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713
Firefox/2.0.0.5
and
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre)
Gecko/2007072019 Minefield/3.0a7pre

I see a fixed-width gold box on the left, and a fixed-width green box on the right. This appears to be contrary to the bug report.

Therefore I'm marking this as WORKSFORME.