[thelist] Re: Can't scroll left in Mozilla browsers

[Clive R Sweeney]

Clive Sweeney wrote:
>> What I found is that in Firebird and Mozilla, as the window
>> gets narrower than the page content, the content stays centered
>> -- the left side moves offscreen to the left, but the scroll 
>> bar stays at the far left, so that the user *cannot* scroll over
>> to see the left side of the page. In IE6 and Opera 7, as the
>> window is narrowed the page slides left but stops at the edge
>> of the content -- i.e. the behaviour I want and expect -- and
>> the user can at least use the scrollbar to view the rest of
>> the page.

>> I found that if I wrapped the whole content area in a container
>> div and gave the div a transparent border on the left, Firebird
>> and Mozilla would show the same behaviour as IE and Opera.
>> Success! But then I found that the transparent border showed
>> as black in IE. And I don't want a visible border. So much for
>> my fix.

>> You can see the problem at
>> http://www.designshift.com/index.html.

>> You can see the transparent border "fix" at
>> http://www.designshift.com/index2.html.

Kristof Neirynck wrote:
> I can't seem to find the ruls in your css files that make the
> centering work, but this is usualy due to centering this way: 
> <http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/center2.html>

> To fix it you can use this: 
> <http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/center1.html>

Unfortunately that wasn't the cause of the problem, Kristof. My
content *is* centered using "margin:auto". That's why it doesn't 
make any sense that it's screwing up in Firebird and Mozilla. If 
you're looking for the specific CSS with "margin:auto", it's 
in "ds2_main.css". Thanks for checking it for me.

::. clive