[thelist] Funky Scroll Bar won't go away - different problem

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Tue Aug 28 15:04:33 CDT 2001


> http://66.156.220.225/
>... the first time the page is loaded in IE 5.5, there is a
> gap between the right scrollbar and the top image.  If I hit
> refresh, the table holding the image expands all the way.
> Any clues?

sorry, no idea

hey, how come you specify

     <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
             topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"
             marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">

but then you build that CCCC99 border strip into your images?

oh, never mind, i think i get it -- you wanted the table to touch the right
side of the window, but not the left, so you "built in" a bit of left
padding...

>   <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
          background="images/backgroundTop.gif">
>     <tr><td>
>       <img src="images/topLeftCorner.gif" width="161" height="116"
          border="0"><br>
>     </td><td width="100%">
>     <center><img src="images/ronsPage.gif" border=0 height=116
          width=394><br></center>
>     </td></tr>
>   </table>

try putting your background image into the table cells instead of the
table -- netscape 4 doesn't do table backgrounds

i really like how your design uses a tiling body background image down the
left side underneath the same table that uses a tiling image for the top
bar...

however, both your body background image backgroundLeft.gif
as well as the table backgroundTop one are really really slim --
what, one or two pixels? -- and i think i heard of page rendering
problems if background images weren't at least 8 pixels wide
and/or tall (not really sure about that number, though)...

i think charles johnson (http://littlegreenfootballs.com) had a
problem with this a while ago, so if you see this, charles, maybe
you can confirm or correct my faulty memory


rudy






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