[thelist] Jumpy Page/Page Shifts - Help?

raskenbo raskenbo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 07:55:54 CST 2005


On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:51:19 -0500, raskenbo <raskenbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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


The following css, only tested in my environment, added a scrollbar to FF:
body{height: 101%;}


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