Ian Hickson wrote, > That's what 'overflow:scroll' means: Show scrollbars.
It's only supposed to do that when the contents overflows the containing rectangle, right? I guess what I'm asking is why Mozilla thinks that the contents is overflowing the containing rectangle, when IE does not. For one thing, the containing rectangle has no size restrictions, in this case, nor does its parent rectangle. For another, the scrollbar that Mozilla displays has no "play," i.e. there's no space to the left or right of the "thumb button," and when you click on the left or right arrows of the scrollbar nothing moves. And finally, why a horizontal scrollbar? Wouldn't a vertical scrollbar be the more usual kind when text (which can be wrapped to the next line) is too large for the containing rectangle? I came across a debate from half a year ago, about how MS Windows IE displays a disabled vertical scrollbar even when the page contents fits entirely in the view without scrolling, while Mozilla only generates the vertical scrollbar when it is needed. Given that difference I would have expected IE to display that unneeded scrollbar (vertical and disabled, of course), while Mozilla would not display any scrollbar when it wasn't needed. The mystery seems to be compounding. Help! -- Helge Moulding mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just another guy http://hmoulding.cjb.net/ with a weird name
