298896 - :hover div {display:block} is not visible with overflow:auto

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 298897

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

visibility of div element which is inside other div element should not change 
according to overflow property of div element which is outside.

<div ~ hover>
  <div ~ sometimes visible sometimes not> any content </div>
</div>
<div overflow>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
talking about attached url 
1. move cursor to text "test menu"
2. now is one more element visible
3. move cursor down (inside this new element)
Actual Results:  
when position of cursor is on intersection of 'this new element' and other div 
with overflow:auto - 'this new element' is again invisible

Expected Results:  
element should be visible only according to properties of him self or parents 
elements (eventualy javascript), not elements outside

in msie is it ok.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 298897 ***