Re: scrollbars in IE disappearing and appearing again

VK wrote:
Annelies wrote:
I've come across a strange problem I can't seem to solve.

Every now and then the scrollbars in IE for http://www.websaid.be/
disappear. Most of the time the problem can be reproduced by following a
link on the page and then returning to the home page by clicking on the
arrows in the top left corner: suddenly the vertical scrollbar
disappears (although there is content outside the viewport) only to
reappear when hovering over the menu at the top.

When the menu (with the three red circles) is removed from the page, the
problem is gone, so it must have something to do with that menu, and in
particular the javascript. Does anyone have an idea what is going on
and/or have any hints on where to look to solve this problem? Thanks in
advance for any help!

Get all this stuff out (IE doesn't support XHTML):

// remove
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
// remove

Place instead:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/strict.dtd";>

(if you are *not* planning to use frames and/or iframes)

If you need frames and/or iframes then place:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/frameset.dtd";>

Nothing to do with JavaScript though.


Thanks for the help, but unfortunately that breaks the entire site (layout in IE goes berzerk) since it has been written using XHTML. I have not written the code myself, but have had to take over the existing code so I'm afraid I'll have to stick to that. Since everything works fine without the menu, I'm hoping there'd be a way to solve this without having to rewrite all of the html....
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