scrollbars in Internet Explorer

why are there scrollbars here?

[waxwing]

Hi -

This is my first post because this issue is driving me crazy.
If you go to my site you will notce that I put scrollbars in the tables with overflow set at auto.
Whenever I have a scrollbar in a table IE adds a scrollbar to the side of the browser the length of the overflow, safari does not and looks much better. I hate those IE scrollbars.
Can anyone shed some light on this? It would really help me.

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[edited by: tedster at 2:49 pm (utc) on April 19, 2005]

[cmatcme]

No scrollbars over here (IE6). What browser version are you using?

cmatcme

[waxwing]

IE 5.2 -

probably time to upgrade. Thanks for your response. It's always helpful to have other people take a look.

[cmatcme]

probably time to upgrade

You may think that but will your clients? Still best to try and solve it.

cmatcme

[MatthewHSE]

The overflow property is a tricky one to get working cross-browser. If I'm interpreting your question correctly, you'll need to experiment with widths, margins and paddings to get it right.

Overflows are not something I would use on a site where a clean and consistent appearance is important. It's just too hard to get it to behave properly, and it breaks easily from one browser to another.

[tedster]

I am assuming that you are on a Macintosh platform. If so, IE 5.2 is the latest version - and the last, says Microsoft. It was quite the advanced browser in its time, and still accounts for 60% of the Mac visitors I see.

In fact, IE 5.2 for Mac was the first browser to employ document switching - a neat little trick that evolved into today's Standards Mode/Quirks Mode switching. But the old browser does have its troubles, and unwanted/unneeded scrollbars are a problem with many IE versions, not just Macintosh. In this case, IE is looking at the total document length without any accounting for the table scrollbar.

I don't know of any work-around for this issue.

[waxwing]

Hmmmm...
I am disappointed! I really like the look of the scrollbars in the table, but it seems to be a difficult thing to do. I am sure that there may be some answer out there. Back to the drawing board.

[waxwing]

May have found the answer in the stylsheet I need to put -
Body {
overflow:hidden;

}