301999 - Wrong display of web elements such as textareas and divs when using overflow:visible

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

Description

[testuser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Opera 8.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 

In web elements such as div or textarea when setting style="overflow:visible;", 
FireFox show text out of elements (for divs) or don't resize web elements 
(textareas)

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Elements must resize to show the whole content.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Works fine for me, text correctly overflows outside the element.

Please attach a testcase that demonstrates the problem and tell us what version
of Firefox you are using.

Comment 2

[Jeff]

Sorry, your "expected" behavior is actually wrong - An element with overflow 
visible is supposed to overflow the content outside of the element's designated 
area, without expanding the element.  You might be confusing Internet 
Explorer's incorrect "stretch to fit" implementation as being correct.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Moving to Core / Layout: View Rendering

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Having re-read this, I agree with Jeff, what you are looking for is not the
correct behaviour. Resolving INVALID. Please reopen if you disagree.