On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:14, Paceaux <pace...@madebypaceaux.com> wrote:
> Is this a known defect/bug in Opera? > > I can't imagine a scenario where I'd intentionally apply an outline to an > invisible element. But, I can see this as a good bit of information where > we've gotten our selectors wrong, or some sort of JavaScript was applied > incorrectly - and we see a box on our page for no good reason. I use > outline for doing wireframes, so this is good to know. > > My guess is that this happens because outline is not supposed to be part > of the layout - unlike border. I think I read in Meyer's book Smashing CSS > that the outline is meant to be drawn around the element. So it looks like > Opera maybe is following the letter of the law, while the other browsers > are assuming you don't want to outline what's invisible. > According to http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=264982 This is by design, they assume that this is what the spec wanted, even though they seem to be completely alone in this regard, and as far as I'm concerned, this behaviour is useless. Mark ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
