297055 - vertical scroll bar is not visible on overflow: scroll; if not enought space for it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 292284

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Adam Brunner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

As w3.org's CSS Specification says on page
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visufx.html#overflow:

scroll
    This value indicates that the content is clipped and that if the user agent
uses a scrolling mechanism that is visible on the screen (such as a scroll bar
or a panner), that mechanism should be displayed for a box whether or not any of
its content is clipped. This avoids any problem with scrollbars appearing and
disappearing in a dynamic environment. When this value is specified and the
target medium is 'print', overflowing content may be printed.

But no vertical scroll bar is visible, only horizontal!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a div element with an ID
2. put some content into it
3. create a style for the ID, and add rules height about 40px, and overflow: scroll;


Actual Results:  
No vertical scroll bar is visible.

Expected Results:  
Vertical scroll bar should be visible, like CSS Specification say.

Maybe the scroll buttons should be transformed to smaller, like IE does.

Comment 1

[Adam Brunner]

On height of the div from 1-47 pixel on a default windows theme will the
vertical scroll bar invisible.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Please attach a testcase showing this issue:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=297055&action=enter

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I think this is basically bug 292284 (which should have become a duplicate of
bug 184998, sorry José, didn't see that one).

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Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 292284 ***