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

Philippe Wittenbergh phiw at l-c-n.com
Wed Jan 7 00:38:04 CST 2004


On Jan 7, 2004, at 11:26 AM, Clive R Sweeney wrote:

>>> 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.

The border is only an ugly hack. The solution is to give <body> a 
min-width:
body {min-width:760px} /* allows for a small margin on both sides */

Philippe




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