Posted by Ben C on 07/27/07 20:39

On 2007-07-27, jakeatkins via WebmasterKB.com <u35973@uwe> wrote:
> Gwin wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I'm trying to make an image that will cover all page content
>>>>>>>>> that scrolls under it stay at the top of the browser window,
>>[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
>>>
>>> What's the simplest way of doing this?
>>
>>overkill on useragent sniffing
>>why are you having to deal with a horizontal scrollbar anyhoo?
>>won't fit fluid?
>
> I don't know why I should be having to deal with it either. IE won't fit it
> fluid without the html styles.css. It keeps adding a horizontal scrollbar
> with a small amount of moving for no reason. Check out
> www.scribalmusings.com in various browsers! Currently the style.css is set
> to:
>
> html { overflow-x:hidden; overflow:scroll;}
>
> IE likes this, but now others don't. Any help is greatly appreciated, it's
> driving me nuts!

overflow-x is a non-standard IE property (suggested for CSS3 I think).

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