Bug 126160

-webkit-blend-mode fails for accelerated parents with overflow:hidden, for example: <div class="parent" style="overflow:hidden; -webkit-transform: translateZ(0)"> <div class="blendedChild" style="-webkit-blend-mode: difference"></div> <div class="nonBlendedChild"></div> </div> For this particular case, the parent element creates a clipping layer (m_childContainmentLayer), meaning that the blended child won't get an m_ancestorClippingLayer, breaking the previous functionality. Setting the blend mode on the parent clipping layer is wrong because it would cause all of the parent's children to blend, instead of just the ones that have blending set. To address this problem, I've found the following solution, which I've managed to validate with a prototype: When detecting an element that should create a clipping layer, while also having blended children, we disallow the clipping layer creation and mark the element. For each child layer, we check whether it has a blend mode or a subtree with a blended child. If so, we create an ancestor clipping layer (m_ancestorClippingLayer) and set its size/location according the what the clipping layer for the parent should have been. Otherwise, we have detected a child that doesn't have blending (neither the current element, nor its children), so we create a clipping layer. When setting the blend mode for the layer, we check for the existence of an ancestor clipping layer. If it exists, we set the CAFilter on it, otherwise we set the filter on the main graphics layer.