Scrollbar MUST stay...

[eilsoe]

allright, I checked on this, and I just can't get the scrollbars to stay on my pages (HTML)

It works on frames with scrolling="yes" , but I want it on the current page, not in a frame, just a typical browser window.

FF uses "auto" as default apparently, even if I add the scrolling="yes" in the body tag, or through CSS, it doesn't work :m:

is there ANY way to make this act the way it should?

[RabBell]

not in firefox, pretty sure you can't alter the apperance of the scrollbar in firefox at all

[simplistik]

Can't do it. The only thing that could possibley solve it maybe is making a blank div or table that's 101% long forcing i to always be just lightly longer than the page will make the scrollbar stay.

[eilsoe]

dang it... :-/

I made my site using a table with width percentages, and when the bar appears, the content jumps to the left... :(

[chris.garrett]

You could also place a span in the markup, fill it with something like a row of colons for none CSS users and then in the CSS add the folllowing:


span#whatever{
visibility: hidden;
position: absolute;
bottom: -1px;
}

This should force a scrollbar, but in doing so may confuse users.

[hl]

body{
overflow:scroll;
}

[Ectheo]

not in firefox, pretty sure you can't alter the apperance of the scrollbar in firefox at all

You can, problem is, as a web designer, you can't. The user's (or in this case, FF's) style script always overrides a CSS style script. Unless you can find a way to modify the users style script, you can't do it.