[thelist] IE5Mac horizontal scrollbar bug solved

Peter-Paul Koch gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 6 06:43:01 CDT 2002


>I worked a little on the same problem, and came up with a useful css
>hack to target a rule just at MacIE5. This was in connection to some
>problems I was having with scrolly divs - block elements set with
>overflow: auto;
>
>see:
>http://sam-i-am.com/work/css/index.html
>and
>http://www.sam-i-am.com/testsuite/css/mac_ie5_hack.html
>for the commented backslash hack.

That is very interesting. I saw it somewhere before (I assume you posted
this to the list when you discovered it) but I'd forgotten. Thanks for the
reminder.

>I never did solve the problem of the cropped content and scrolly divs
>(where the content is hidden but still apparently present - forcing
>scrollbars where none appear necessary)

No, it's a very difficult bug. But I declared Holy War on unwanted IE5Mac
scrollbars, so I hope I'll find a solution.

ppk

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