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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On Behalf Of Jody Tate
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Subject: Re: [WSG] the mysteries of overflow: hidden
Exactly. The magic confounds me.
http://staff.washington.edu/jtate
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 :)
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From: Jody Tate jt...@uw.edu
Subject: [WSG] the
