How to get rid of this horizontal scrollbar?

vanbeugen · Nov 22, 2006

In the html below (see also

http://www.creatief-denken.be/opl47k.html)

I have in IE a horizontal scrollbar and a vertical scrollbar. In the #contentRight div I use the command "overflow: auto" in order to let the text scroll vertically. I want to get rid of the horziontal scrollbar but I don't want to use the command "overflow-x: none" and "overflow-y: auto", because then the vertically scrolling disappears completely on a MAC (OSX). I have tried already in many ways (change the width of the div's) to let the horizontal scrollbar disappear but it doesn't work. Is there an easy way to get rid of this horizontalscrollbar?

This is the HTML:
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="generator" content="Adobe GoLive 4">

<style type="text/css">
</style>
</head>

<body bgcolor="white" text="black">
<table border="0" bordercolor="red" width="100%" height="100%" align="center">
<tr height="100%">
<td align="center" height="100%" valign="top">
<table width="680" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

<tr height="435">

<td colspan="3" height="435" width="510" bgcolor="#9DEFC7">

<div id="contentRight"><br>

<div class="tekst">
<p>bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

<br><br>
bla bla bla<br>bla<br>bla bla bla<br>bla<br>bla bla bla<br>bla<br>bla bla bla<br>bla<br>bla bla bla<br>bla<br>
bla bla bla<br>bla<br>bla bla bla<br>bla<br>bla bla bla<br>bla<br>bla bla bla<br>bla<br>bla bla bla<br>bla<br></p>

</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>

</html>

Vragabond · Nov 22, 2006

1. What's up with the tables in your code? You have no tabular data.
2. Try removing all the children in the overflowing element until the scrollbar goes away. Usually the problem is one element that is bigger than the container thus causing scrollbars.
3. Consult this page for some additional ideas.

BillyRayPreachersSon · Nov 23, 2006

vanbeugen,

Perhaps you can give some closure on this thread:

How to add alternative text and title to image in "var"?
(thread216-1284785)

by letting us know if you resolved your problem or not?

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