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frame scrolling=auto in IE6

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CliveC

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I have noticed that in IE6, frames within a frameset have an unecessary horizontal scroll bar when the need for a vertical scroll bar is triggered. Using scrolling="yes" clears up the problem but then vertical scroll bars appear even when they are not needed. Has anyone found a fix for this?

Thanks,
Clive Clive
 
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Annoying isn't it??

You can try some CSS BUT I don't think this is complient.

{ overflow-y: scroll; overflow-x: hide; }


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Yes, it is frustrating. IE6 essentially makes scrolling="auto" obsolete. Either you must use scrolling="yes" or scrolling="no". I am suprised that there has not been more mention of this. Using Google it seems that most of the comments come from Germany. As far as I can tell no one seems to have a solution. Clive
 
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Forgot to mention previously but I found a solution to this. The problem occurs only if you use:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN&quot;
&quot;<html xmlns=&quot; xml:lang=&quot;en&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;>

if you just use <html> the problem goes away. I have noticed the doctype tag causing other anomolies also.

Clive
 
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Well wouldnät you need to use the frameset DTD, the one above is for non-framed pages, reckon.

But I have noticed that type of thing before, with table height's for example.




 
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Cian,

No. It is the doctype tag in the frame that you wish to have scrolling auto that you remove. A frame would not have a frameset DTD only the frameset.

Clive
 
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This problem can also mess up JavaScript. For example:

Without the doctype tag, scrolltop is referred to as:
document.body.scrollTop

With the doctype tag, scrolltop is referred to as:
document.documentElement.scrollTop

EdwardMartin suggested in a different thread that with the doctype tag, IE6 uses a different DOM.

Clive
 
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with this:
<html xmlns=&quot; xml:lang=&quot;en&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;>
is the problem caused by xmlns=&quot;or
xml:lang=&quot;en&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;

I've always used the former, never the later. (I also don't use frames... maybe iframes, but not often. I might some day though.)
 
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