Strange border

Unwanted page border in IE6. Frameset involved.

[sparky]

I wonder if there’s anyone out there that can shed some light on this one:

I’m designing a web site that has two parts. Part of it uses a frameset and other parts don’t. There are links which take the visitor to pages which break out of the frameset by using the target=”_top” command. That works fine. But something strange keeps happening. When breaking out of the frameset, the resulting page displays a border (apprx. 10-20 pixels) down the right and along the bottom, despite the relevant parent table widths in the frameless pages being set to 100%. If you hit the refresh button in IE6 the page then reloads properly without this border. I’ve checked and double-checked to make sure all my borders and margins are zeroed both in the frameset and other pages. I’ve not found anything to cause this. Can any HTML experts please explain what’s happening, or offer a fix, because I’m seriously losing the plot here, and hours of time trying to solve this? Any help or suggestions much appreciated.

[ShawnR]

Are you talking about the scroll-bar? If you make the window small so that not everything fits in the window, do the scroll-bar arrows appear?

Shawn

[sparky]

I see where you're coming from, but no, the strange borders appear right and bottom even when there are scroll bars. This problem occurs at all window sizes and screen resolutions.

As I said, if you hit 'refresh' they go away, and the page fills the window as it should.

Thanks for your reply.