Why do the scrollbars appear in IE?

blue_harvester · 17 Apr 2006 at 15:03

I'm working on a pretty large website at the moment and I'm trying to figure out why the horizontal and vertical scrollbars are appearing in the browser. There is no content beyond the viewable area of the page so I was wondering what component of the HTML needs to be changed in order for the scrollbars to disappear.

Any ideas?

Beansprout · 17 Apr 2006 at 15:07

Most likely because the page size is larger than the current viewport size - got a link?

blue_harvester · 17 Apr 2006 at 15:10

Beansprout said:
Most likely because the page size is larger than the current viewport size - got a link?

I can't link to it as running locally, sorry. How can I reduce the page size?

Bloo_Fish · 17 Apr 2006 at 16:08

blue_harvester said:
I can't link to it as running locally, sorry. How can I reduce the page size?

By reducing the amount of content in the page - or maybe the height of an element with extra space (a div or table perhaps?)

iCraig · 17 Apr 2006 at 17:23

We're really limited without seeing it, can't you upload it somewhere or just post the markup and stylesheet.

It could be a set width, a margin etc.

punky_munky · 17 Apr 2006 at 17:28

Maybe because you're using height or width = 100% and then you have padding.

blue_harvester · 17 Apr 2006 at 17:56

punky_munky said:
Maybe because you're using height or width = 100% and then you have padding.

So I should take out either height/width or padding?

blue_harvester · 17 Apr 2006 at 18:18

punky_munky said:
Maybe because you're using height or width = 100% and then you have padding.

Yep, that was it, thanks a lot guys for all the help.