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This PR implements comprehensive support for nested scroll containers with proper CSS overflow behavior, enabling JSAR to handle complex spatial web layouts that match standard browser scroll event propagation.

Problem

Previously, JSAR's DocumentEventDispatcher only supported single-level scroll containers. When a user interacted with nested scrollable elements, scroll events would target the first containing scroll container rather than the deepest one, breaking expected browser behavior for nested layouts like:

<div style="overflow: auto; width: 200px; height: 200px;">
  <div style="overflow: scroll; width: 100px; height: 100px;">
    <div style="width: 300px; height: 300px;">Large content</div>
  </div>
</div>

Solution

This implementation adds proper nested scroll container support with:

1. Boundary-Aware Scroll Detection

  • Added ScrollableArea::canScrollInDirection() to check if containers can scroll further before attempting scroll operations
  • Prevents unnecessary scroll attempts when containers have reached their boundaries

2. Scroll Container Chain Building

  • Enhanced DocumentEventDispatcher::buildScrollContainerChain() to create an ordered hierarchy from deepest to shallowest scrollable containers
  • Properly respects CSS overflow values: includes scroll and auto, excludes hidden from user-initiated scrolling

3. Automatic Event Bubbling

  • When the innermost scroll container reaches its boundary, scroll events automatically bubble up to parent containers
  • Implements standard browser behavior where scroll events propagate through the container hierarchy

4. CSS Overflow Compliance

  • overflow: scroll and overflow: auto - Participate in scroll chains and handle user scroll events
  • overflow: hidden - Excluded from scroll chains for user-initiated scrolling (can still be scrolled programmatically)

Technical Details

The implementation maintains backward compatibility while adding nested support:

  • prepareSetupForScroll() now builds a complete scroll container chain instead of finding just the first container
  • onScroll() attempts to scroll the current target, and if it can't scroll further, automatically bubbles to the next parent container
  • tryScrollCurrentTarget() performs boundary checking before scrolling and returns whether the scroll was successful
  • All existing single-container scroll behavior continues to work unchanged

Testing

Added comprehensive test scenarios and boundary checking tests to validate the implementation works correctly with various nesting configurations and overflow values.

This enables spatial web content to support complex layouts and user interactions with nested scroll containers, bringing JSAR's browser engine into alignment with expected web standards for overflow and scroll event propagation.

Fixes #228.

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Copilot AI and others added 3 commits August 25, 2025 10:41
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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Support full CSS overflow scroll behavior in DocumentEventDispatcher for nested scroll containers Support full CSS overflow scroll behavior in DocumentEventDispatcher for nested scroll containers Aug 25, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from yorkie August 25, 2025 10:49
@yorkie yorkie marked this pull request as ready for review August 26, 2025 11:07
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Pull Request Overview

This PR implements comprehensive support for nested scroll containers with proper CSS overflow behavior in JSAR's browser engine. Previously, only single-level scroll containers were supported, preventing proper handling of complex layouts with nested scrollable elements.

Key changes:

  • Enhanced scroll event bubbling to propagate from innermost to outermost scroll containers when boundaries are reached
  • Added boundary detection to prevent unnecessary scroll operations when containers can't scroll further
  • Improved CSS overflow compliance by respecting scroll, auto, and hidden values in scroll chain building

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 18 out of 18 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

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File Description
src/client/scroll/scrollable_area.hpp Added iostream include and changed scroll methods to return boolean success indicators
src/client/scroll/scrollable_area.cpp Implemented boundary checking and debug output for scroll operations
src/client/layout/layout_view.cpp Added lifecycle callback for layout completion
src/client/layout/layout_object.hpp Added method to find deepest scrollable container
src/client/layout/layout_object.cpp Implemented deepest scrollable container search with CSS overflow filtering
src/client/layout/layout_box.hpp Changed scroll methods to return success status and reorganized layout lifecycle
src/client/layout/layout_box.cpp Updated scroll methods with boundary checking and moved layout updates to lifecycle callback
src/client/dom/element.hpp Changed scroll simulation method to return success status
src/client/dom/element.cpp Added boundary checking and success return values for scroll operations
src/client/dom/document_renderer.cpp Fixed Z-coordinate unit conversion from pixels to meters
src/client/dom/document_event_dispatcher.hpp Added scroll container chain building and current target scrolling methods
src/client/dom/document_event_dispatcher.cpp Implemented nested scroll container chain building and automatic event bubbling
src/client/dom/document.hpp Changed document scroll method to return success status
src/client/dom/document.cpp Updated document scroll with success return value
src/client/builtin_scene/web_content.cpp Fixed code formatting inconsistencies in constructor initializer lists
src/client/builtin_scene/instanced_mesh.hpp Added debug output operator for ContentInstancesList
src/client/builtin_scene/instanced_mesh.cpp Removed std:: prefix from unordered_map for consistency
fixtures/html/css-overflow.html Updated test HTML to demonstrate nested scroll container functionality

#pragma once

#include <optional>
#include <iostream>
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The <iostream> include should not be added to header files unless absolutely necessary. The operator<< friend function is only declared here and implemented in the .cpp file, so this include is not needed in the header. Move this include to the .cpp file only.

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@yorkie yorkie merged commit 52e2ddc into main Aug 26, 2025
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@yorkie yorkie deleted the copilot/fix-228 branch August 26, 2025 11:38
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Support full CSS overflow scroll behavior in DocumentEventDispatcher for nested scroll containers

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