At 11:14 AM -0600 on 10/7/08, Jack Blankenships wrote about [css-d] 
Overflow and no:

>Any ideas on how to have an element's overflow property apply to some
>children but not to others?
>
>For example,  I have a div that contains a table/grid that I want to
>have set to overflow: auto on a specific height.  This way the results
>stay within a specific set of dimensions and do not push the rest of
>the layout into undesirable locations.  The problem is that I also
>want to include some css tooltips for specific cells in this
>table/grid, some of which are large enough that I would like to expand
>them out of this standard boundary because they would be displayed
>above the layout content and disappear when :hover is not activated.
>
>Thanks,
>Jack

You might try creating a Class definition with the overflow setting 
you want for the special cells and add the class= parm to those 
cells. This SHOULD override the setting inherited from the div.

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Bob Rosenberg
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