Posted by BootNic on 01/30/74 11:54

> "Andrew" <sorry.no.email@post_NG.com> wrote:
> news:eqctc2pfjb3nfvl19d0l7mdl3sf0a0s8c8@4ax.com....
>
> Hi,
>
> 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:
>
> .codebox {
> border:1px dashed black;
> color:#000000; background:#F0F0F0;
> margin: .5em .5em 1em 1em;
> padding:.75em;
> }
>
> #homerbox {
> border: 1px solid black;
> color:black; background:#FFFFE6 url(images/red_pin.gif)
> no-repeat top right;
> margin: .5em 1em;
> padding: 0em .75em;
> }
> Any help will be gratefully received!

I would have thought it was your:

#content margin: 1em 5% 1em 5%;

An alternative method could be:

margin: 1em auto 1em auto;
width:90%;

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BootNic Monday, July 31, 2006 11:35 PM

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