scroll bars not showing now

Discussion in 'CSS' started by thechasboi, Sep 7, 2007.

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    OK I have this element that most of the time will need scroll bars due to the number of images the subscriber has. For some reason IE does not show scrollbars from the start in the element list but once you click an image title the scrolls appear. I am also wondering how I can wrap the words more reliably. The link to the page is http://www.wayneheim.com/stock.asp the stock image list also if you could look at this site as well which uses the same element to display the list http://www.karapelou.com/stock.asp this element has the words that should wrap but do not. Thanks for the reply.
     
    thechasboi, Sep 7, 2007 IP
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    Holy Crap, what a mess. I can't even figure out where one thing begins and the next ends. This is going to take a lot of work to figure out, but from what I can see already is that you use a lot of Mozilla specific CSS code, which you should avoid since that could be the cause of your IE problem.

    Secondly, learn to use a style sheet. Instead of declaring the attributes for each and every span on the page, which seem to be repeated many times. You can reduce that to simply using something like <span class="blahblah"> which will apply those same attributes throughout the page and cutting down on the size and clutter.
     
    GWiz, Sep 7, 2007 IP
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    thechasboi Guest

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    I know this is a mess, some of it is legacy code that was just treated as a black box. I did create those spans inside that table that need the css class. But I must mention one thing else, the scroll bars used to show up. They show up if the browser is in quirks mode though, go figure. Thanks for the reply.
     
    thechasboi, Sep 10, 2007 IP