unwanted horizontal scrollbars

ie mac problem

[kelly001]

Hi,

I'm having this strange problem with an horizontal scrollbar showing up in the redesign of a site. the only difference in the redesign is that instead of having an embedded flash movie as a navigation bar in my div id="layer3" I know have a text based navigation bar in that same div id="layer3"

This seems to only happen in IE 5 on a Mac and I can't seem to get rid of it.

Any suggestions how I can get rid of this problem without using iframes?

[edited by: tedster at 5:51 pm (utc) on Oct. 24, 2003]
[edit reason] <sorry, no links to your own sites> [/edit]

[tedster]

First, let me say that if it's only a cosmetic problem, then IE/mac is being very kind to your code. I've recently had some nasty problems where that browser wouldn't draw any scrollbars for a very simple, W3C validated page.

There's a difference between width declarations for a flash movie (the browser will follow those numbers exactly, to the pixel) and the width declarations for a text-filled div. Browsers are allowed, in fact, they MUST be allowed, some latitude in the width they assign to text filled elements. This is due to the system differences, font differences, etc, that must be accommodated.

You may well be seeing differences because of the Macintosh fonts - but at any rate I would suggest experimenting with that text content and discovering when the side scroll disappears - even if it takes eliminating large chunks just to find that point. Armed with that information, you stand a chance of fixing the problem.