html/css help

racerboy59 · 25 Feb 2010 at 01:01

i'm currently designing a website which has a banner and navigation menu up top and text below. On the navigation menu are about 6 different links spread across. When switching from one page to another it seems to move the menu and banner a small amount and is a small but noticeable change and all pages are formatted consistently using CSS and the same options for banner/menu width and margins.

I'm using firefox by the way and some friends tha have tried the site on their own systems say it works fine. I think some of them were using IE.

Any ideas of things I can check.

simisker · 25 Feb 2010 at 01:21

Just a hunch: do some pages have much more content than others?

It could be that the introduction of a vertical scrollbar for longer pages is having an effect.

racerboy59 · 25 Feb 2010 at 01:56

lol, absolutely correct. I just realised this through trial and error and a lot of messing about.

is there anyway to force vertical scrollbar on all pages to keep it all consistent, or any other method I can use?

nevermind I got it working (mostly) with html {overflow:scroll} in css.

Tripnologist · 25 Feb 2010 at 09:17

racerboy59 said:
is there anyway to force vertical scrollbar on all pages to keep it all consistent, or any other method I can use?

overflow-y on html will give you only a vertical scroll, not the horizontal one as well.

racerboy59 · 25 Feb 2010 at 16:06

Thanks Tripnologist. Much appreciated.