Re: Centering divs in firefox and scrollbar issue

Once upon a time *Spondishy* wrote:

> Hi HTML is
>
> <div class="outer">
> <div class="centerDiv">
> <div class="inner">
> Content
> </div>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> In answer to your questions.
>
> 1) If I understand you correctly, you would prefer to have the most
> right
> 24 pixels of your page invisible, as in covered by the scrollbar?
> I hope that's not what you want.
>
> Not at all. The behaviour of IE is that the scrollbar is always
> visible, but isn't in Firefox and that is why the center div sometimes
> shifts to the left. I was just wondering if there was a way around
> this.

The behaviour of IE is wrong. The reason I say so, is that IE seams to
thinks the browser is part of the website the user is on. Therefore
the web authors is allowed to mess with IE, e.g. changing the look of
the scrollbar. So the scrollbar is visible even when it's not needed.

But as I hope even you understand, the scrollbar is part of the
browser and the browser is the users, not the web authors. So other
browsers show the scrollbar if it's needed, and never let the author
change the look of it.

But the centered content is always centered on a webpage, it's just
that the center change if the page is long enough to need the
scrollbar. As the author you can't do anything about it, and should
not since the browser is the users who visit your site, not yours and
not a part of your site. :)

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/Arne
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