Re: [css-d] Absolute positioning, off-screen positioning and scrollbars

2008-05-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Hardie wrote: > And I presume because when the left attribute is assigned a negative > value, the calculation of the canvas's width is not increased, so > scroll bars are not added? The fact is that "browsers" decided to providing horizontal scrolling to one side only - the right side, beca

Re: [css-d] Absolute positioning, off-screen positioning and scrollbars

2008-05-14 Thread Ingo Chao
Chris Hardie wrote: > And I presume because when the left attribute is assigned a negative > value, the calculation of the canvas's width is not increased, so scroll > bars are not added? >> Though it is taken out of the normal flow, it is still painted on the >> "canvas" (CSS 2.1: 2.3.1: "the s

Re: [css-d] Absolute positioning, off-screen positioning and scrollbars

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Hardie
And I presume because when the left attribute is assigned a negative value, the calculation of the canvas's width is not increased, so scroll bars are not added? > 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 st

Re: [css-d] Absolute positioning, off-screen positioning and scrollbars

2008-05-14 Thread Ingo Chao
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: > > > > No scrollbars to see here! C

[css-d] Absolute positioning, off-screen positioning and scrollbars

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Hardie
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: No scrollbars to see here! Carry on! However, if I try to posit