[thelist] Jumpy Page/Page Shifts - Help?

raskenbo raskenbo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 07:51:19 CST 2005


On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:52:47 -0800, Angelique Felgentreff
<afelgentreff at stanford.edu> wrote:
> On a new site I've been working on for a friend, there's a little jump
> between the way several of the pages align themselves on the screen as you
> navigate between them which I can only see when I use a non-IE browser (IE
> seems to blissfully ignore my mistake).
> 
> I see this using Netscape 7.2 on my PC and in both Safari and Firefox on my
> Mac.  I don't see it using IE 6.0.28 on my PC.
> 
> For example, http://www.ryozanpaku.com/ ->
> http://www.ryozanpaku.com/investors.html the page shifts right.
> http://www.ryozanpaku.com/investors.html  ->
> http://www.ryozanpaku.com/contact.html shifts back to the left.

In Firefox it's the appearence of the vertical scrollbar that causes
the "shift".

IE has a vertical scrollbar even when one isn't required. Firefox adds
the scrollbar only when it is required.

Tested on W2K IE 6, FF 0.9.3

Ken Chase
Freelance Web Design
http://www.kenchase.com


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