Posted by pbx on 01/06/07 17:34

i have a div tag on my html page as follows:

<div style="overflow-x:scroll;"> (or auto, makes no difference)

the contents of the div are about 1500 pixels wide.

in firefox, the div will get a horizontal scroller, fitting it nicely
within firefox's browser window

in IE, however, no scroller will appear. the content will reach its
full 1500 pixels and the browser's scroll bar will appear.

the firefox behavior is desired, i want the div to have a scroll not
the browser window to grow to accomodate the whole div.

if i set the width to a defined number of pixels, however, IE will
provide a scroller. but i don't want to do this, since obviously the
code is generated on the server and i have no idea with width of the
user's browser window.

btw, the "incorrect" behavior is showing itself in IE 7. using firefox
2.0.

any workaround?

[Back to original message]