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Posted by Matt White on 08/13/07 16:44
On Aug 13, 10:20 am, Neredbojias <monstersquas...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:42:30
> GMT Matt White scribed:
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> > On Aug 10, 6:29 pm, Neredbojias <monstersquas...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 10 Aug 2007
> >> 17:39:46 GMT Matt White scribed:
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> >> > On Aug 10, 11:24 am, Neredbojias <monstersquas...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> >> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 10 Aug 2007
> >> >> 17:03:43 GMT Matt White scribed:
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> >> >> > Hello,
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> >> >> > Check outwww.help-international.org/beta
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> >> >> > I put in an image tag to illustrate my problem. Firefox works
> >> >> > properly for pages where the content does not require a
> >> >> > scrollbar, but otherwise not. IE is even worse.. I'd like my
> >> >> > menu to extend to the bottom of the page. What is the best way
> >> >> > to accomplish this? Thanks.
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> >> >> Basically, you have to style the html and body elements with 100%
> >> >> height. This, of course, may alter the requirements of the other
> >> >> markup.
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> >> >> --
> >> >> Neredbojias
> >> >> Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.
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> >> > Ok, tried that, but no change occurred. What am I doing wrong?
> >> > Here's the link to the stylesheet:
> >> >http://www.help-international.org/beta/css/global.css
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> >> Well, a change did occur, but regardless.
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> >> Now put overflow:auto; on #content. You should see a result and
> >> probably be able to figure the rest out yourself.
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> >> --
> >> Neredbojias
> >> Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.
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> > This seems to have improved things except one new problem: there are
> > two scrollbars now. One is for the whole page and one is for the right
> > div only. How can I get rid of one or the other?
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> You have to apply "overflow:hidden;" to html and perhaps body. It's been a
> while since I did such things and don't have any of my old samples left.
> It will work pretty good if you get the settings right, but ie6 can still
> have some problems.
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> --
> Neredbojias
> Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.
Thanks Neredbojias. The solution I'm now using that works in IE and
Firefox (haven't tested on older versions, however) is to set
overflow: hidden on the html element and overflow: scroll on the
content div. Looks beautiful... brings tears to my eyes.
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