841877 - <button> elements don't clip their contents (contents overflow)

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Consider: https://bug-13443-attachments.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=14136

Both IE 9 and Webkit trunk clip the contents to the button; Opera 12.14 and Firefox trunk do not.

However, neither Opera, Firefox or Webkit clip relative positioned elements in the button (see also bug 491180 and attachment 389956 [details])


I'm not sure what the right thing here is, but maybe Gecko should also clip non-positioned children in a button?

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Looks like we used to clip things here in Firefox 3.5, but stopped in Firefox 3.6.

I wonder whether that was a purposeful change or just an accident..

Comment 2

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Sounds like a question for www-style.