Ho hum, think first, post second. It looks like it always draws the vertical scroll bar whether or not it is needed. So I guess you have the choice of a needless scroll bar sometimes or content shifting about sometimes.
On May 26, 2:55 pm, ed <[email protected]> wrote: > @Goulven: the article confirmed what I already knew which is that the > appearance of a scroll bar caused the layout to jump about. > > @Christian: really? the shift in an otherwise centred layout was > really noticeable and was, to myself and my client, unacceptable. > > FWIW I discovered this on another forum, I added the following to my > CSS after the blueprintcss files > > html {overflow-y: scroll} > > TBH I don't understand what exactly this does but it seems to have the > desired effect. On my Mac this works for FF and Safari, On Linux it > works on FF/Centos 5.3, I have yet to hear back about IE7 (for this > project we are leaving IE6 to its own devices). > > On May 26, 1:19 pm, Christian Montoya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:09 AM, ed <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have a new site with a mix of page lengths. When switching between > > > pages the content can shift depending on whether the scroll bar is > > > displayed or not. > > > > This is very unpleasant and I have had to give .container a 5px left > > > margin to fix it in place, which kind of spoils the appearance. > > > > Is there a work around for this? I can't believe I'm the first person > > > to come across this issue. > > > I think you are not the first person to come across this issue, but > > the first to consider it a problem. > > > -- > > -- > > Christian Montoya > > mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
