I'll give that a try, I think you're right, I was just a bit surprised that (so far as I could tell by searching) this phenomenon didn't seem to bother anyone else.
On May 26, 5:38 pm, saquino <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe this also works: > html { margin: 0 0 1px 0; min-height: 100%;} > > and I don't think there's an alternate to not always having a > scrollbar to prevent the shift unless of course you don't center the > page. > > sean > > On May 26, 7:06 am, ed <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
