Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 12/10/28 11:54

Andrew wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:00:46 +1000, Andrew
> <sorry.no.email@post_NG.com> wrote:
>
>>I am having immense frustration with 2 pages that demonstrate
>>horizontal scroll bars in Internet Explorer 6. The pages are:
>>
>>http://www.andrews-corner.org/ancient_greek.html
>>http://www.andrews-corner.org/web_publishing.html
>>
>>(BTW the content is not complete on both pages!) The culprits appear
>>to be some div boxes in the main #Content box that I am using to
>>enclose material. With these removed the scroll bar vanishes.
>>
>>The offending boxes are currently: <snip>
>
> Hi Andrew :-)

It's ok if you talk to yourself...

> Ok so on closer examination it seems to be a width issue of the
> boxes. I had assumed if I left the width of the divs out they would
> simply expand to fill the containing div?

A quick glance ... try removing the border-bottom from the <h1> and <h2>
to see if the IE scrollbars go away.

> Sod it, I am taking the dog for a walk!!!

Fetch him a bone.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

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