The Overflow / Max-Height Bug:

This page test the CSS overflow property. When set to auto, the browser should add scroll bars only when the content is bigger than the containing box. The containing box within which I want to test overflow (on this page the grey boxes), use the following css:

.code1 {
	color: black;
	background: #eee;
	border: 1px solid #777 ;
	font: 11px "Courier New", monospace;
	width: 80%;
	margin:auto;
	min-height: 3em;
	max-height: 16em;
	overflow: auto;
	padding: 5px; }

Note that this element has a min-height and max-height declaration, and in this case the maximum height of the content is less than the max-height defined in the css - thus no scrollbars show. Now lets try to trigger the overflow case with more content:

If one examines subpatriarchialist material theory, one is faced with a choice:

	either accept the presemioticist paradigm of reality

	or

	conclude that the task of the artist is deconstruction,
	given that reality is equal to art.

It could be said that the subject is contextualised into a Batailleist `powerful
communication' that includes language as a totality.
Marx uses the term:

	'precapitalist semiotic theory'

to denote the bridge between narrativity and society.

In Opera V7.1 - the vertical scroll bar fails to display, only the horizontal scrollbar does. Therefore one is not able to access the remaining text in the second grey box. This is a bug in Opera V7.1 dependant on BOTH overflow: auto and max-height: - I remember some previous version rendered this OK. I haven't tested it in Phoenix, as my copy keeps crashing currently. Here is the same text as above, this time in a container without the min- and max- heights, with a height: 16em; declared, note that the scrollbars display correctly:

If one examines subpatriarchialist material theory, one is faced with a choice:

	either accept the presemioticist paradigm of reality

	or

	conclude that the task of the artist is deconstruction,
	given that reality is equal to art.

It could be said that the subject is contextualised into a Batailleist `powerful
communication' that includes language as a totality.
Marx uses the term:

	'precapitalist semiotic theory'

to denote the bridge between narrativity and society.

NOTE: The important text selection bug is still present in Opera V7.1 - if you try to select text in an overflowed DIV you select text outside of it instead of scrolling down WITHIN the DIV. This only affects Opera V7.1 - IE6 and Phoenix 'do the right thing'.