30973 - Scrollbars on overflow: scroll and overflow: auto always are initially at the top and left

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6976

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew Brealey]

For content that overflows the left or top of an element, the scrollbar should 
not initially be at the top and left, but Mozilla currently does this.

See the specified URL, plus 
http://richinstyle.com/test/dynamic/overflowauto.html.

For example, given:
<div style="overflow: scroll">
<div style="margin-left: -40px">
This content will overflow the side of the element
</div>
</div>

In Mozilla the result is:

tent will overflow the side of the element 

with a scrollbar that looks like this
+----------+
|MMM       | 
+----------+
where MMM indicates the scroller, whereas in fact since content is overflowing 
the left of the element, the result should be this:
+----------+
|  MMM     | 
+----------+
This means that when overflow: scroll or overflow: auto, content that overflows 
the left or top of the element can't be seen.

Comment 1

[troy]

DUP of bug #6976

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6976 ***

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

VERIFIED