378676 - autoscroll should scroll overflowing elements

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 295977

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

It'd be nice to be able to use autoscroll within divs with overflow:scroll.  This requires walking up the target and looking for something scrollable.

Comment 1

[tonda kavalec]

I am not shure, if I understand correct. You can test it with the attached file aswell: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=262645

Comment 2

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/suite/common/utilityOverlay.js#639 is what needs to change.  If we can't actually get a view, we'll need a separate codepath for setting scrollTop as opposed to using scrollBy().

Comment 3

[tonda kavalec]

Chris I am not a programator, but I think a div is very simillar to iframe. If SM supports autoscroll in en iframe, the same technick could may be used in this DIVs with overflow: auto;

Just a idea. Nothing more.

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Sorry, this one is for Seamonkey. I saw that too late (although, isn't Seamonkey using also Toolkit now?)

Comment 6

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

We're using toolkit autoscroll now, so marking as duplicate is fine.