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Why vertical scrolling - back to newbie!

Sent by Keith Purtell on 30 August 2004 06:06


Thanks to all who responded; my problem is now resolved! Also, now that I 
know the trouble spot, I can look this up in a CSS reference to better 
understand what happened. Trying very hard to RTM!

K. Purtell


At 10:24 PM 8/29/2004, Paul Novitski wrote:
>At 01:54 PM 8/29/2004, Keith Purtell wrote:
>...
>>but for some reason (at least with  IE6 on a Windows PC) the scroll bar 
>>on the right is acting like there is slightly too much vertical content.
>...
>>http://www.keithpurtell.com/index.cfm
>
>
>Keith,
>
>My guess is that IE is having trouble combining all of your dimension 
>specs, although I'm not sufficiently savvy to identify the problem 
>precisely.  I made it look the way I think you intend by making these 
>changes -- and I got rid of not only the vertical scrollbar in IE but also 
>the horizontal scrollbar I was getting in other PC browsers:
>
>.StCpyrght {
>font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;
>font-weight: normal;
>font-style: normal;
>font-size: .5em;
>/* padding: 22px;       REMOVED */
>text-align: right;
>color: #999999;
>}
>div#footer {
>position:absolute;
>width: 96%;
>/* height: 30px;        REMOVED: */
>/* display: block;      REMOVED: */
>bottom: 22px;           /* CHANGED FROM 0 */
>}
>
>You don't need display: block because your div is naturally a block; 
>specifying it redundantly seemed to be causing problems in IE for some 
>typically bizarre IE reason.  Specifying the height struck me as 
>redundant, since the div will naturally expand to accommodate its 
>content.  The padding seemed to be interfering as well, so I shifted its 
>value to the bottom property.  I hope this paring down helps.
>
>Paul


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