(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,
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
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
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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
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Exactly. The magic confounds me.
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] the mysteries of overflow: hidden
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Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 12:20 AM
(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