overflow:hidden simply suggests that whetever text/image if overflows will be
automatically get hidden and hence the case. So read it like if something
overflows it should be hidden :)
--- On Thu, 2/11/10, Jody Tate wrote:
From: Jody Tate
Subject: [WSG] the mysteries of overflow: hidden
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> On Behalf Of Jody Tate
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> Exactly. The magic co
Exactly. The magic confounds me.
http://staff.washington.edu/jtate/overflow.html
(I threw together the above example quickly. (Yes, embedded styles are a
no-non, but it was easy to do in this situation.)
Thanks a ton for the quirksmode link. It helps demystify the mystery.
-jody
On Feb 10
Ah, that.
Yeah... magic.
I think that is actually a sort of bug or artifact that occurs from the
need to calculate the dimensions of the container in order to hide properly.
- Christian
On 2/10/2010 4:42 PM, akella wrote:
Apparently he is talking about overflow:hidden as a clearing floats
f
Apparently he is talking about overflow:hidden as a clearing floats fix. (
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html)
Let me reformulate the question: why the property that serves for hiding
smth just make the wrapper stretch to accomodate containing floats.
As for me - i still consider this mag
My apologies all. This charming individual has been removed from the
list.
No need to comment on this and add unwanted noise to the list...
As you were.
Thanks
russ
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I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Could you put together a
quick example to illustrate.
Basically what overflow: hidden does is anything that doesn't fit into
it's given container is hidden, basically meaning that it doesn't affect
the height of it's container. This only works if t
If I understand correctly, you're suggesting that that "overflow:hidden"
doesn't hide overflow?
My own use of "overflow:hidden" has only been in conjunction with a
stated height. In this case "overflow:hidden" hides anything that goes
beyond the stated height of the element the rule has been a
(I'm a list lurker. Also, apologies if this has been covered before.)
In CSS, setting a div to "overflow: hidden" solves a problem it shouldn't--at
least from the name of the property and value, it seems like it shouldn't.
Often I'll have text, e.g. an h1, overflowing its containing/parent div,
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