page not scrollable. 1

[Klae]

Hi guys,

I have a page that positions all elements then makes them visible in the browser. However, if the browser window is too small for everything to fit vertically IE4/IE5 doesn't give the users scrollbars. I am using a table that is the tallest object on the page and if I don't do anything dynamically then the browser does have scrollbars. so say the tables "top" and its "height" exceeds the vertical size of the window then the browser doesn't have scroll bars I obviously need scrollbars and because the page takes a little time to load I have to have it all positioned then made visible although I have a gut feeling this is where the problem lies. Is there anyway to ensure scrolling without signed scripts?
hope it makes sense!
Thanks alot to anyone who helps me out on this one! It's been driving me crazy!!

 

[tsdragon]

If you are using the window.open command to open the window and are specifying any attributes of the window then you must specify all that you want turned on (i.e scrollbars=yes). Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[tsdragon]

If you are using the window.open command to open the window and are specifying any attributes of the window then you must specify all that you want turned on (i.e scrollbars=yes). Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[KevinFSI]

Yeah, otherwise, I don't know why you wouldn't have scrollbars!

It's certainly not an IE thing. If you have content that exceedes the visible vertical limit of the page, you'll get scrollbars. Unless of course, as tsdragon said, you're using window.open without specifying the scrollbars attribute.

Also, you may want to ensure you don't have the style attribute overflow:hidden; written anywhere. I don't know how it could happen by mistake, but I guess stranger things have happened. Kevin
slanek@ssd.fsi.com

 

[Klae]

I'm getting somewhere but guess what... Netscape is now holding me back. If I 'wrap' the offending table (the only element that isn't fully visible in a DIV tag with some style properties then because the DIV tag takes the dimension of the table then IE suddenly produces scrollbars (Oh, I'm not using window.open) But now in Netscape the table has decided to not be visble at all now! I'm working on it though! Thanks for your help what put me on to the idea was luciddreams answer to your (KevinFSI) table scrollbars query and wrapping it in a SPAN tag.

Thanx guys.