328086 - Scrollbars showing even when div visibility:hidden

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187435

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Kenny Lucius]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

A div with visibility:hidden contains a form with a textarea. The textarea contains enough text to activate the scrollbars. The scrollbars are visible even when the div is hidden. Furthermore, the scrollbars appear on top of other divs that should cover them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a textarea element filled with enough text to activate scrollbars
2.place the textarea inside a div with visibility:hidden

Actual Results:  
The scrollbars are visible even though the other contents of the hidden div are not visible. Furthermore, the scrollbars appear over other divs that should cover them.

Expected Results:  
No scrollbars should be visible.

This bug also appears in Firefox.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187435 ***