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c1sissy Posts: 5084 Joined: 7/20/2002 From: NJ Status: offline	overflow and clip properties? - 7/18/2004 10:10:15 I have been reading the book Cascading Style Sheets A beginner's Guide. By James H. Pence.. and have come to a couple of properties that just make no sense to me. Overflow and clip, which if I am remembering correctly is to be used if your content in the child element is too much for the parent element. This totally makes no sense to me. If you are designing a page, would you not make sure that your content fits the area that you are desigining??? I'm sorry if this seems like a goofy question, but it just doesn't make any sense to me at all. I would appreciate any discussions from anyone that has used this and does understand why it is a useful css property. _____________________________ Deb-aka-c4Ksissy high panjandurum and alpha female of the silverback tribe As decreed by Jesper 5-24-2003. The only stupid question is... the one that is never asked!! http://directory.css-styling.com http://fmsforum.com http://positioniseverything.net/ http://www.tanfa.co.uk/


Donkey Posts: 3910 Joined: 11/13/2001 From: Blackfield United Kingdom Status: offline	RE: overflow and clip properties? - 7/18/2004 21:27:16 AFAIK Clip is for clipping (cropping) an image with CSS rather than using an image editor. Personally I can't see the point. More info Here With overflow you can fit a lot of content in a small div and set the overflow property to scroll or auto so that you can use the div almost as though it were a frame and scroll through the contents. _____________________________ I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. Samuel Clemens (in reply to c1sissy)


c1sissy Posts: 5084 Joined: 7/20/2002 From: NJ Status: offline	RE: overflow and clip properties? - 7/19/2004 9:57:55 thank you to whoever edited my book title , I'll have to remember to underline instead of use the Italic. Doneky, From the example that they give in the book, it shows informaiton in the form of words being clipped out. I don't have the book by me right now, but I'll come back later on and put a quote in from the book on the description of the clip. Apparently the usage of clip is in case the information does not fit into the child element. You can put clip in and it reduces what you have in there? _____________________________ Deb-aka-c4Ksissy high panjandurum and alpha female of the silverback tribe As decreed by Jesper 5-24-2003. The only stupid question is... the one that is never asked!! http://directory.css-styling.com http://fmsforum.com http://positioniseverything.net/ http://www.tanfa.co.uk/ (in reply to Donkey)


Donkey Posts: 3910 Joined: 11/13/2001 From: Blackfield United Kingdom Status: offline	RE: overflow and clip properties? - 7/19/2004 10:48:35 Sounds interesting, I look forward to seeing that info. _____________________________ I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. Samuel Clemens (in reply to c1sissy)


c1sissy Posts: 5084 Joined: 7/20/2002 From: NJ Status: offline	RE: overflow and clip properties? - 7/19/2004 10:57:53 quote: ORIGINAL: Donkey Sounds interesting, I look forward to seeing that info. I have some errands and uhmm housework to do? ick. Prefer computer time, but.... Anyhow I'll post it later on today. _____________________________ Deb-aka-c4Ksissy high panjandurum and alpha female of the silverback tribe As decreed by Jesper 5-24-2003. The only stupid question is... the one that is never asked!! http://directory.css-styling.com http://fmsforum.com http://positioniseverything.net/ http://www.tanfa.co.uk/ (in reply to Donkey)


bobby Posts: 11394 Joined: 8/15/1969 From: Seattle WA USA Status: offline	RE: overflow and clip properties? - 7/21/2004 0:55:16 I don't know much about clip. I remember skipping it for some reason, but I don't recall why. Overflow rocks, but it never worked right in anything but IE 5.5+ so I stopped using it. I'll have to play with it on something soon and see how it does on more recent browsers. I liked it because it took away many of the problems I ran into with absolute positioning... you can lay out the width and height of every element on the page, and exactly where it's positioned... not having to worry about them scrolling on a page, or how to get them to match up, etc. When done correctly it takes away the need for browser scroll bars completely... elements that need to scroll do so, and when they don't then the scroll bar doesn't even show up. The elements never resize (unless you use % in which case they all resize together) and never change shape or position. It gives you near-absolute control over the rendering of your page layout (when used with CSS2) I dig overflow. _____________________________ If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? (in reply to c1sissy)


c1sissy Posts: 5084 Joined: 7/20/2002 From: NJ Status: offline	RE: overflow and clip properties? - 7/21/2004 8:51:10 quote: I dig overflow. LOL we have an overflow supporter! I just need to play with it as well. I have not seen too much of it mentioned in my readings, but this book did cover it a good bit. And I still highly suggest this book to everyone, even if you are already doing css pages. It covers a good bit and is very understandable. _____________________________ Deb-aka-c4Ksissy high panjandurum and alpha female of the silverback tribe As decreed by Jesper 5-24-2003. The only stupid question is... the one that is never asked!! http://directory.css-styling.com http://fmsforum.com http://positioniseverything.net/ http://www.tanfa.co.uk/ (in reply to bobby)

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