Creating Stacking Contexts hints at why stacking contexts exist in the first place; some property values need to be contained and isolated to keep things manageable.
Interestingly the Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS states that tables and overflow: scroll should have created their own stacking contexts as well.
overflow: scroll
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Creating Stacking Contexts hints at why stacking contexts exist in the first place; some property values need to be contained and isolated to keep things manageable.
Interestingly the Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS states that tables and
overflow: scrollshould have created their own stacking contexts as well.