- From: David Emmerson <davidemmerson@crosswinds.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:41:08 +0100
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
> in IE6 I am having a problem. When a vertical scrollbar automatically > appears, it is adding extra width to the page, therefore a horizontal > scrollbar also appears, which you cannot get rid of on any vertical > scrolling page. This list is not really the place to discuss that (also the problem seems to be a CSS one mainly rather than HTML). > > Also, for IE, when you set any scrollbar styles eg. > > scrollbar-face-color:#ccccff; > scrollbar-highlight-color:#000099; > > they are not taking affect. I have spent ages looking for IE6 bugs on this > problem, but I have just found out that if I take out the xhtml1.0 dtd > declaration, it all works fine ! IE6 is more strictly compliant with the recommendations. Supplying a doctype puts it into strict mode, which will ignore those non-css properties. > Is there any way of fixing this without taking the dtd out ? I have found a > hack for the horizontal scrollbar (on IE6, putting in scroll="yes" into > body - not very elegant), but I'm presuming it should be fizable in the css. overflow: auto; on the <body> may help, but the actual scroll 'bug' should be taken up with Microsoft. -- David Emmerson
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