[thelist] Can't scroll left in Mozilla browsers

[Clive R Sweeney]

I just noticed an unfortunate glitch in my newly-redesigned site. It's
designed (with CSS layout) for a fixed width aimed at a minimum window
size of 800x600, but I thought I'd see how it looks if the window is
smaller. 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.

Does anyone recognize this problem and/or could anyone suggest a better
fix? Thanks.

 
::. clive
 
Clive R Sweeney
Designshift