[thelist] Removing scroll bars

Matthew Mullenweg matt at swcdesign.com
Tue Feb 19 15:54:00 CST 2002


That works, but it did *very strange things* with scrollbars showing up
in odd places in Mozilla and NS6, and actually ended up crashing Mozilla
several times (granted, a nightly build). It's not that important to me,
just something I thought would be neat.

-Matt

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> Matt,
>
> > A small variation on this question, what would be a good way to have
> > scrollbars hidden if the content doesn't take up more than one page?
> > scroll="auto" does this but again, doesn't validate.
>
>     But doing the very same thing with CSS is trivial, and will
validate:
>
> html, body
> {
>     overflow: auto ;
> }
>
>     This will hide the scrollbars if they are unneeded, but will
display
> them if they are needed -- perhaps the best of the various solutions.
>
> James Aylard
>
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