Chris Hardie wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if someone could point out where in the spec the following > behaviour is defined. If I use absolute positioning to position an > element off the left-hand side of the screen, I don't get any scroll bars: > > <body> > <div style="position:absolute;left:-100em;border:1px solid > orange;width:100px;"> > No scrollbars to see here! Carry on! > </div> > </body> > > However, if I try to position the element off the right-hand side of the > screen, I get a horizontal scroll bar that allows me to scroll over to > see the absolutely positioned element: > > <body> > <div style="position:absolute;left:100em;border:1px solid > orange;width:100px;"> > Scrollbar alert! Scrollbar alert! > </div> > </body> > > I had presumed that since the element was taken out of document flow, > the viewport wouldn't be impacted by its placement, but obviously I'm > missing something > > C.
Though it is taken out of the normal flow, it is still painted on the "canvas" (CSS 2.1: 2.3.1: "the space where the formatting structure is rendered"). CSS 2.1: 9.1.1: "When the viewport is smaller than the area of the canvas on which the document is rendered, the user agent should offer a scrolling mechanism." regards, Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html http://www.dolphinsback.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
