[whatwg] overflow of seamless iframes

Mon Aug 18 18:28:06 PDT 2008

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>wrote:

> 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 :-).
>

Hmm ... does the "bounding box" take into account scroll positions? Because
if it does, then scrolling in the iframe's document can change the intrinsic
height of the iframe (for example if there's also fixed-pos content in the
iframe). That doesn't sound good.

Rob
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