New page: overflow values

[estelle]

The <overflow> values are used in multiple properties. Instead of defining the values in each location, we can provide a deep dive in one location and refer to this page when using the value type.

[github-actions]

Preview URLs

• /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/overflow_value

Flaws (1)

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/overflow_value
Title: <overflow>
Flaw count: 1

• bad_bcd_queries:
  • No BCD data for query: css.types.overflow

(comment last updated: 2023-04-27 20:07:15)

[dipikabh]

Thanks, @estelle. I'll start reviewing this tomorrow.

[dipikabh]

Hi @estelle, the Overflow specification does not define <overflow> as a data type. Would it be correct to document it as one?

Could we instead use the overflow property page as the deep dive location for the values and link other overflow-* property values to the overflow property page?

As an example of a property-* page, min-block-size values and min-inline-size values do this and also the inset-* properties.

As an aside - I don't think there is any other "_value" data type page (overflow_value used in the slug for the new page) in the "Types" sidebar grouping.

[estelle]

Hi @estelle, the Overflow specification does not define <overflow> as a data type. Would it be correct to document it as one?

It doesn't defined it as a data type. Similar to <line-style>, it's an enumerated value type, so let's go with that, "enumerated value type", categorized as a data-type for page types, but not listing the term.

As an aside - I don't think there is any other "_value" data type page (overflow_value used in the slug for the new page) in the "Types" sidebar grouping.

as overflow is a property, i couldn't use that as the slug. i grabbed the slug idea from color_value as color is also a property.

[dipikabh]

Getting around to the idea of having a page for enumerated value type! Suggested some edits and rephrasing

[dipikabh]

Suggested change

	slug: Web/CSS/overflow_value
	page-type: css-type
	slug: Web/CSS/overflow_values
	page-type: css-value-type

or maybe page-type: css-enumerated-value-type?

Just a suggestion for a different page type. We might want to try a different page type for these types of pages. You'd have better ideas here.

[estelle]

for now, we are adding this as a regular value type. We can change if we think it doesn't work live.
For the slug, other CSS data types use "value" not "values.

[dipikabh]

The bcd file location will also need to change. A new folder for values?

There's folders for at-rules, selectors, properties, and types at present.

[estelle]

we're pretending this is a regular data type for now: it's just enumerated rather than functional or numeric like the other ones

[dipikabh]

You might want to increase the length of the iframe here to contain all the examples

[dipikabh]

Thank you for the updates!