475324 - Bottom of page not visible, and no scrollbar

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Positioned, defect)

Description

[xzoli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5

The page http://people.redhat.com/drepper/ is not visible to the bottom, as the menus on the left side reach out from the page. Erroneously, there is no scrollbar available. 




Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[xzoli]

Attachment: Screenshot about the missing scrollbar.

Screenshot attached.

Comment 2

[Brian Polidoro]

The absolute positioned div is taken out of the normal flow so it will not cause scrollbars.

Comment 3

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

fixed position fwiw, but invalid no less.

v.

Comment 4

[xzoli]

Sorry but why is this invalid ?
If the information displayed is wider/higher than the display area, scrollbars should be shown. That's what scrollbars are for.
Or am I wrong ???

Comment 5

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

The website is styling their page that way, they want that menu not to affect the document flow, and that's why there are no scrollbars. Read the spec http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#positioning-scheme .