Opera overflow bug when no explicit width is set

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Without an explicit width set, overflow:auto and overflow:scroll do not work in Opera 6.06, 7.23, 7.54 or 8.0. Oddly enough it does work in Opera 7.02, except Opera 7.02 ignores max-width.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Kravvitz.

Opera | Reported on 28 June 2005.

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Posted by TarquinWJ on 1 July 2005

1

Am I missing something here? All I get is a nonsense page saying "HTML and XHTML - Common HTML 4.01 Mistakes", with no description of the bug, and no testcase.

Anyway, that aside, I use this all the time in Opera, and it works for me. It fails in IE though. Is it just the specific versions that are supposed to have problems?

Posted by Kravvitz on 2 July 2005

2

I apologize. I was having trouble with mod_rewrite. The link works now.

After submitting this bug to this Bug Report System, I realized that this happens only when the element has position:relative or position:fixed set.

The demo has been updated to reflect this and to include a second version of the work around.

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