26009 - When scroolbar disappear, background color is different than actual background color.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[/\/\arcio Galli]

To reproduce: 

Build: 2000013111, win 98,

I am not sure if this is a bug. When the scrollbar disappear, the background 
color of the area behind the scrollbar was filled based on Style sheet 
definition of the class. This is the minimum (in size) testcase I could code. 
See that I have defined red background at the CSS at the top of source code and 
green background as style attribute (DIV ... style="...").

Comment 1

[troy]

No, I think what you see is correct. The green is displayed because of this:

<div id="screen" 
style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;background-color:green">

We do what the CSS2 spec says which is size the absolutely positioned element to 
the height of the containing block, in this case the "initial containing block". 
 That's why green is displayed

The way the CSS2 spec is defined it isn't backwards compatible with IE or Nav 
4.x which is why the pagfe displays differently in IE

This may get fixed in an update of the CSS2 spec, but for the time being this is 
the way it works

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified invalid per last comments.