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Generally, the content of a block box is confined to thecontent edges of the box. In certain cases, a box may
Whenever overflow occurs, the
Value: | visible | hidden | scroll | auto |inherit |
Initial: | visible |
Applies to: | block containers |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | as specified |
This property specifies whether content of a block container element is clipped when it overflows the element's box. It affects the clipping of all of the element's content except any descendant elements (and their respective content and descendants) whose containing block is the viewport or an ancestor of the element. Values have the following meanings:
Even if'overflow' is setto 'visible', content may be clipped to a UA's document window by thenative operating environment.
UAs must apply the 'overflow' property set on the root element tothe viewport.When the root element is an HTML "HTML" element or an XHTML "html" element, and that element has an HTML "BODY" element or an XHTML "body" element as a child, user agents must instead apply the 'overflow' property from the first such child element to the viewport, if the value on the root element is 'visible'.The 'visible' value when used for the viewportmust be interpreted as 'auto'. The element from which the value ispropagated must have a used value for 'overflow' of 'visible'.
In the case of a scrollbar being placed on an edge of the element'sbox, it should be inserted between the inner border edge and the outerpadding edge. Any space taken up by the scrollbars should be taken outof (subtracted from the dimensions of) the containing block formed bythe element with the scrollbars.
Example(s):
Consider the following example of a block quotation(<blockquote>
) that is too bigfor its containing block (established by a<div>
). Here isthe source:
<div><blockquote><p>I didn't like the play, but then I sawit under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.</p><cite>- Groucho Marx</cite></blockquote></div>
Here is the style sheet controlling the sizes and style of thegenerated boxes:
div { width : 100px; height: 100px; border: thin solid red; }blockquote { width : 125px; height : 100px; margin-top: 50px; margin-left: 50px; border: thin dashed black }cite { display: block; text-align : right; border: none }
The initial value of<blockquote>
would be formatted without clipping, something like this:
Setting'overflow' to'hidden' for the<div>
, on the other hand, causes the<blockquote>
to be clipped by the containing<div>
:
A value of 'scroll' would tell UAs that support a visible scrolling mechanism to display one so that userscould access the clipped content.
Finally, consider this case where an absolutely positioned elementis mixed with an overflow parent.
Style sheet:
container { position: relative; border: solid; } scroller { overflow: scroll; height: 5em; margin: 5em; } satellite { position: absolute; top: 0; } body { height: 10em; }
Document fragment:
<container> <scroller> <satellite/> <body/> </scroller> </container>
In this example, the "scroller" element will not scroll the"satellite" element, because the latter's containing block is outsidethe element whose overflow is being clipped and scrolled.
Aclippingregion defines what portion of an element's border box is visible. By default, the element is not clipped. However, the clipping region may be explicitly set with the'clip' property.
Value: | <shape> | auto |inherit |
Initial: | auto |
Applies to: | absolutely positioned elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | 'auto' if specified as 'auto', otherwise a rectangle with four values, each of which is 'auto' if specified as 'auto' and the computed length otherwise |
The 'clip' property applies only to absolutely positioned elements.Values have the following meanings:
<top>,
When coordinates are rounded to pixel coordinates, care should betaken that no pixels remain visible when <left> and<right> have the same value (or <top> and <bottom>have the same value), and conversely that no pixels within theelement's border box remain hidden when these values are 'auto'.
An element's clipping region clips out any aspect of the element (e.g., content, children, background, borders, text decoration, outline and visible scrolling mechanism — if any) that is outside the clipping region.Content that has been clipped does not cause overflow.
The element's ancestors may also clip portions of their content (e.g., via their own'clip' property and/or if their'overflow' property isnot 'visible'); what is rendered is the cumulative intersection.
If the clipping region exceeds the bounds of the UA'sdocument window, content may be clipped to that window by thenative operating environment.
Example(s):
Example:The following two rules:
p#one { clip: rect(5px, 40px, 45px, 5px); }p#two { clip: rect(5px, 55px, 45px, 5px); }
and assuming both Ps are 50 by 55 px, will create, respectively,the rectangular clipping regions delimitedby the dashed lines in the following illustrations:
Note. In CSS 2.1, all clippingregions are rectangular. We anticipate future extensions to permitnon-rectangular clipping. Future updates may also reintroduce asyntax for offsetting shapes from each edge instead of offsetting froma point.
Value: | visible | hidden | collapse |inherit |
Initial: | visible |
Applies to: | all elements |
Inherited: | yes |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | as specified |
The'visibility' propertyspecifies whether the boxes generated by an element arerendered. Invisible boxes still affect layout (set the
This property may be used in conjunction with scripts to createdynamic effects.
In the following example, pressingeither form button invokes an author-defined script function that causesthe corresponding box to become visible and the other to behidden. Since these boxes have the same size and position, the effectis that one replaces the other. (The script code is in a hypotheticalscript language. It may or may not have any effect in a CSS-capableUA.)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Dynamic visibility example</TITLE><META http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="application/x-hypothetical-scripting-language"><STYLE type="text/css"><!-- #container1 { position: absolute; top: 2in; left: 2in; width: 2in } #container2 { position: absolute; top: 2in; left: 2in; width: 2in; visibility: hidden; }--></STYLE></HEAD><BODY><P>Choose a suspect:</P><DIV> <IMG alt="Al Capone" width="100" height="100" src="suspect1.png"> <P>Name: Al Capone</P> <P>Residence: Chicago</P></DIV><DIV> <IMG alt="Lucky Luciano" width="100" height="100" src="suspect2.png"> <P>Name: Lucky Luciano</P> <P>Residence: New York</P></DIV><FORM method="post" action="http://www.suspect.org/process-bums"> <P> <INPUT name="Capone" type="button" value="Capone" onclick='show("container1");hide("container2")'> <INPUT name="Luciano" type="button" value="Luciano" onclick='show("container2");hide("container1")'></FORM></BODY></HTML>