Posted by Andrew on 01/28/25 11:54

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:36:14 GMT, "BootNic"
<BootNic@bounce.prodigy.net> wrote:

>> "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.
snip.......................

>> 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%;

Hi BootNic,

If you were anywhere close I would kiss you on both cheeks!! I have
changed the CSS as you suggested and all is now well.

Thanks,

Andrew.
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Andrew
http://www.andrews-corner.org/

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