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NN6 scroll bar problem with JavaScript-created pages

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greginald

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Apr 24, 2001
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Blast you Netscape! Ok, end of vent. :)

Problem: Under NN6, the vertical scroll bar that appears within a JavaScript dynamically generated frame is acting "funky". "Funky" meaning: a) the size of the bar doesn't accurately reflect the true length of the generated frame content, and b) the scroll bar doesn't scroll when selected and drug.

Other notes:
- The content *is* being generated correctly.
- Everything appears correctly as it should under IE5.x and NN6.
- The scroll bar works exactly as it should under IE5.x.
- There are no other scroll bar abnormalities on any other page of the site under NN6 (HTML or JavaScript), therefore I believe this to be specific to this JavaScript generated frame.
- I do not use JavaScript to manipulate the scroll bar. All it's used for is content written with document.write().
- All of my tags (I'm pretty sure) are closed correctly.
- I do use CSS.
- All of my JavaScript code is embedded from the header frame. I use multiple includes because I use a lot of code.
- I spend more freakin' time fixing stupid Netscape problems than is reasonably acceptable and I hate them! ;-)

To view the problem first-hand, fire up NN6 and check it out at:
Select any of the review links (film, music, books), grab the scroll bar and let the funkiness begin.

Attempt to select all of the text with your mouse and drag your pointer down to the end of the content - it will become obvious that the content is there but the scroll bar isn't accurately reflecting that.

Help?
 
I'm stumped - it's still not working for me. The vertical scroll bar works fine on standard HTML pages, but the Film Crique, Musique Nonstop and Latest Reads sections (which are all dynamically generated via JavaScript) still have the brain-dead scrollbar problem under NN6.01. Any ideas?

I'm reaching here, but is it possible there's some mouse driver issue involved here? I noticed that past NN releases had Java issues that were related to drivers.
 
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