unwanted scrollbar problem

kelly001 · 10-24-2003, 07:52 AM

Hi,
I'm having this strange problem with an horizontal scrollbar showing up in the redesign of a site. the only difference in the redesign is that instead of having an embedded flash movie as a navigation bar in my div id="layer3" I know have a text based navigation bar in that same div id="layer3"
This seems to only happen in IE 5 on a Mac and I can't seem to get rid of it.

Here is an example of both designs :

old one :

new one:

Any suggestions how I can get rid of this problem without using iframes ? thanks

Sharpie · 10-24-2003, 09:14 AM

Your seeing it on the nav bar?
I'm only seeing it on the main content (layer 4)...

kelly001 · 10-24-2003, 09:20 AM

no i only see it on the div4 content layer. Not the nav bar layer...

Somehow when I add the text based nav bar, the problem appears, if it's the flash based navigation bar it dissappears.

Sharpie · 10-24-2003, 09:34 AM

That's odd. I can't see anything in the code that is making it do that. Have you tried widening up your layer to see if the scroll bar disappears?

kelly001 · 10-24-2003, 10:57 AM

yeah, I have tried making wider and narrower. It just doesn't make any sense... What I don't get especially is that if in div3 I have a flash movie, it doesn't happen but if I have text it does. I tried disabling the CSS but that doesn't work either.

IE5 on Macs is known to have some bugs when using layers. In the past I've dealt with it by redirecting those users to a user specific page which uses iframes instead. It's just a pain though because you need to do a double update for every page you change on the site...

**LazyJim** · 10-24-2003, 11:34 AM

I see no horizontal scroll bars! I'm using mozFireBird on winXP.

Jazzee · 10-24-2003, 11:46 AM

It is only there in IE5 on a MAC.

kelly001 · 10-24-2003, 12:07 PM

jazzee,

any idea how to fix it without using a redirect to a user specific page ?

Sharpie · 10-24-2003, 12:16 PM

This might be a duh! question but...

Is the text nav bar the same dimensions as the Flash nav bar?

kelly001 · 10-24-2003, 12:59 PM

yes, it is and I've tried changing it as well...

Jazzee · 10-24-2003, 01:05 PM

Let me know if this helps you:

http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/right_pos/index.shtml

Quote:

Seemingly, IE 5 Mac adds a margin around positioned boxes, even if you specify {margin:0} in the style rule.

Jazzee · 10-24-2003, 01:08 PM

There is also something about unwanted horizontal scrollbars about halfway down this page:

http://developer.apple.com/internet/css/ie5cssbugs.html

Jazzee · 10-24-2003, 01:10 PM

Here is one more:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/css2tests/ie5mac/margin.html

**LazyJim** · 10-24-2003, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jazzee

It is only there in IE5 on a MAC.

Oh yeah I'm blind!