MediaWiki:Common.css: Difference between revisions

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     explicit min-width so they're actually allowed to shrink.
     ========================================================================== */
-/* Only html, not body: setting overflow-x on both makes the browser
+/* Force normal document-level scrolling. Something (base skin CSS, not
-    auto-promote overflow-y to auto on both too (CSS overflow spec), which
+    wiki-editable) was letting <body> become its own independent scroll
-   here made <body> win as the actual scroll container instead of <html>.
+   container while <html> stayed pinned to the viewport height - which
-    That broke position:absolute elements like the tab bar, which expect
+    made position:absolute elements like the tab bar (whose containing
-    the normal document/html-level scroll to carry them off-screen. */
+    block is the html-level initial containing block) behave as if fixed,
+   overlapping content instead of scrolling away with it normally. */
+html, body {
+    height: auto !important;
+    overflow-y: visible !important;
+}
 html {
      overflow-x: hidden;