Page position with/without vertical scroll bar.

[aich69]

I have a feeling I'm asking a really basic question here but the answer is illuding me so here goes...

I am building a site HTML/CSS, centered pages, one style sheet caters for whole site. Here's the obvious bit: pages that don't scroll sit the width of the scroll bar to the right of those that do.
Before I used CSS I would have added some space to the right side of a page that didn't scroll to get it to line up with those that did, possibly not the most elegant way but that's what I did.

I'm sure there must be a more elegant/CSS way to get all pages to line up on each other regardless of whether they scroll or not.

Could anyone point in me the right direction please?



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[ChrisHirst]

set your fixed width container to allow for the scrollbar. (~ -30 to -40px)

ie:For 1024px wide your container should be 980 - 990px wide.




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[aich69]

Sorry Chris, I never thanked you for your reply.

I opted to force a scroll bar on all pages, where the page is short the scroll bar movement is limited to just 1px.

I wasn't sure if I was going to like this at first but it's better than the page skip option.

Thank you...

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