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[mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of David Hucklesby
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 3:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [css-d] question on space at bottom of page

On 7/22/11 4:48 AM, Markus Ernst wrote:
> Am 21.07.2011 15:44 schrieb Alan Gresley:
>> Out of curiously, can you please tell me what the following CSS is for.
>>
>> /* To prevent jumping */
>> html {
>> min-height: 100%;
>> margin-bottom: 1px;
>> }
>
> I have seen this before as a recommendation how to force a scrollbar, 
> in order to prevent centered contents from moving 8 pixels 
> horizontally when navigating between pages with and without scrollbars.

Yup. This works, too:

html {
overflow-y : scroll;
}
--
Cordially,
David

While David's solution does work, it causes a validation error. So, I've
been using the following code:
html {
        height: 100.2%;
}

Gail
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