[thelist] Nested divs and a horizontal scrollbar PITA
pandy
pandion at gmx.net
Tue Nov 15 02:23:29 CST 2005
Jay Blanchard wrote:
>Alrighty, I have run smack into the "IE can't properly render nested divs
>problem". It displays a horizontal scrollbar without a width attribute being
>set for the body;
<snip>
>The reason that this width has to be set is this, a div using the following;
> #content div.warning{
> background-color: #FFCC99;
> border: 1px solid #993300;
> font-style: italic;
> padding: 5px;
>}
>
>is nested within a div using;
>
>#content {
> background: #FFFFFF;
> font: 0.8em tahoma, arial, sans-serif;
> height: auto;
> text-align: justify;
> padding: 160px 70px 0px 70px;
>}
>
>so that the underlying mark-up looks like this;
>
><div id="content">
> <div class="warning">
> ...
> </div>
></div>
Uhm, no. That code does not produce a scrollbar on its own here (IE6). So,
what more do you have? URL to a sample page maybe?
pandy
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