[thelist] IE Scroll Problem?

Jennifer jen at avarweth.thechain.com
Sat Sep 14 06:59:00 CDT 2002


The URL was supposed to be
http://www.avarweth.thechain.com/pMachine/test/ala.php.

And it does, indeed appear to be IE's float bug.

Drat. The link you suggested came to the conclusion that there *was* no
workaround-- the one they originally tried didn't do it, I guess.

Well, back to the drawing board I think. Thank you for your help!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Kogler" <ken.kogler at curf.edu>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 11:45 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] IE Scroll Problem?


> >When I load the page
> (http://www.avarweth.thechain.com/pMachine/ala.php),
> >everything looks right, but the page won't scroll more than, say, an
> inch.
> >It just sits there. If I click a link and then go back, I can scroll
> down
> >the length of the page.
>
> First, the link above returns a 404. Just FYI...
>
> But it sounds like you're describing the known bug in IE6 that results
> in certain block-level elements getting cut off.
>
> http://www.alistapart.com/bugs.html
>
> This is the bugs page for alistapart -- the first thing listed on this
> page is the bug we're -- or at least *I'm* ... <g> -- talking about.
>
> Aaron Boodman (of youngpup.net and thelist fame) came up with a nifty
> little workaround, which is described somewhere in here:
>
> http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0802d.html#csslayoutrevisited
>
> Good luck!
>
> --Ken
>
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