[whatwg] overflow of seamless iframes

Mon Aug 18 18:05:08 PDT 2008

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> >
> > Suppose the iframe's document is
> > <body style="position:relative; top:-100px; height:500px;
> > background:yellow;"></body>
> > What's the height of the bounding box? 400px or 500px?
>
> 500px.
>

That's a little weird since only 400px of content will be displayed, but OK
as long as it's clear :-).

> > If we allow the contents to flow out of the box, then we also allow
> > > blog comments to start overlapping other content on the page.
> >
> > Yeah, although setting overflow:hidden on the iframe could be used to
> > prevent that.
>
> Fair enough. In that case I'd rather we had this in the UA stylesheet:
>
>   iframe[seamless][sandbox] { overflow: hidden ! important; }
>

I'd suggest having that except without !important.

But never mind about this issue anyway. I think we can live without it.

Rob
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