I'm puzzled Bruno! Returning to your test case in order to locally check the issue pointed out by Holly, I just realized that there isn't scrollbars (in Opera sure!) when your code was renderized. I am supposing that the test case must shows the scrollbar or Am I missing something? Sorry, Mau
----- Original Message ----- From: "Holly Bergevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruno Fassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] horizontal scroll bar in Opera > From: "Bruno Fassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>I've extracted a small test case [1]. A widthless float (the purple >>one) inside a fixed width wrapper contains two opposite floats that >>fill exactly (with their widths and possibly margins) the wrapper. >>Opera creates an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar. Reducing of even a >>single pixel the widths of the inner floats makes the scrollbar to >>disappear, as (better) assigning a width to the widthless external >>float. > >>[1] http://brunildo.org/test/test/op9scroll.html > > Just for fun, Bruno, try reducing on of the inner floats in your test case > (say the 200px sized one) by only one tenth of a pixel. I realize that > this is nonsensical, but - > > #aux { > float: right; > width: 199.9px; /* <<<<<< this value <<<<<*/ > height: 100px; > background-color: #fc0; > } > > got rid of the scrollbar. > > Opera does this going back to at least version 8.02 (I don't think my > versions are exhaustive), and the same silly width value will fix them > all. > > I did like the looks of putting the width on the wrapper better than > changing the size of the inner floats, but oddly, that width shoves the > left edge of the box off the left side of the page in FF, unaccessible. > Hmmmm... > > ~holly ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/