[thesite] (Fwd) Re: [css-d] Opera and overflow

[aardvark]

remember my attempts to create a scrollable <pre> that could  
replace our textarea? 

remember how i couldn't get the farging thing to work in O6 or  
IE5/Mac? 

well, at least in O6, i now know it's a bug... and i don't much care  
for the hack... 

anyway, now it's in the archives... 

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From:           	Rijk van Geijtenbeek <rijk at iname.com> 
Send reply to:  	Rijk van Geijtenbeek <rijk at iname.com> 
To:             	css-discuss at westciv.com 
Subject:        	Re: [css-d] Opera and overflow 
Date sent:      	Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:25:28 +0200 

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Hello list, 

> From: "Steve Tannock" <steve at tannock.net> 

> So I've just discovered that Opera seems to ignore the 
overflow:auto 
> setting (which seems to be working happily on the other 
compliant 
> browsers). 

Yes, that's one of the items on the not-supported-yet list here: 
  http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/ 

You can't get Opera to create a scrollbar in the a DIV (except by 
putting a IFRAME in it of course). 

If you define 'overflow: scroll;', Opera treats this like 'overflow: 
hidden;'. 'overflow: auto;' is treated as 'overflow: visible;' 

>  Is 
> there a crafty workaround for this that anyone knows of? 
Currently, 
> the text just flows right out of my box, over the box beneath it. Is 
> there a way to hide the height: property for certain browsers, a la 
> 'the voice-family' trick? 

This one seems to work  
http://html.conclase.net/pruebas/hacko5.html 
I'd advise to use 'media="screen, projection"' or 'media="all"' 
though, as 'screen' style sheets are not applied in Full screen 
mode 
in Opera. 


Greetings, 
 Rijk                            mailto:rijk at iname.com 
(Opera Software employee) 

Mot du Jour: 
Facts are stubborn things. 

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