Gosh that is so nice of you. I suspeced the table was changing size
but I didnt think about the scroll bar. Thank you for finding that and
giving me a solution.
On Aug 19, 4:50 pm, "Aaron Heimlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/19/07, Mitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > When I make it auto it works great, but when I click on new search the
> > entire
> > frame shifts to the left a few pixels and I am stuck on why.
>
> I got the same thing, and I don't think you're causing it. When "Search
> History" is collapsed, the entire application appears on screen, so there's
> no need for a vertical scrollbar. When it's expanded however, part of it
> extends past the bottom of the screen, so the browser creates a vertical
> scrollbar.
>
> Since you have both margin-left and margin-right set to "auto" (because the
> centering technique won't work without this), they auto-adjust themselves
> whenever the width of the viewport changes. In Firefox, Adding the vertical
> scrollbar causes the width of the viewport to change slightly, causing the
> margins to auto-adjust themselves, which causes the shift we both noticed.
> The solution, then, is to force the scrollbar to always appear -- if it's
> already there when "Search History" is expanded, then there are no
> left/right margins that need to be auto-adjusted. Something like
>
> body {
> height: 100%;
>
> }
>
> Usually does this, but I don't think it'll work in your case since you seem
> to have a bunch of wrappers that are absolutely positioned, so you may want
> to use an explicit value that you know will trigger the vertical scrollbar
> instead.
>
> --
> Aaron Heimlich
> Web Developer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]://aheimlich.freepgs.com
