245427 - <foreignObject> should not be an absolute positioning containing block

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

At the moment <foreignObject> acts like a containing block. It should not. I
couldn't find anything in either SVG nor CSS that would suggest that it should.

TESTCASE: http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/svg/mixed/006.xml

Comment 1

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

I think it should be a float/block/inline containing block.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

More to the point, it shouldn't be an absolute positioning containing block.
That is, it should act as a normal block-level element, not like a
position:relative block.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Mass reassign of SVG bugs that aren't currently being worked on by Alex to
[e-mail]. If you think someone should be assigned to your bug you can
join the #svg channel on mozilla.org's IRC server ( irc://irc.mozilla.org/svg )
where you can try to convince one of the SVG hackers to work on it. We aren't
always there, so if you don't get a response straight away please try again later. 

Comment 4

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

I think the spec should probably be changed here.  I'm not sure about containing position:fixed, though.

Comment 5

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

See bug 290852 for the position:fixed part.