I have been looking for a solution to an IE8 issue regarding padding on a div with overflow: auto. When the content is scrollable IE8 doesn't seem to honour the bottom padding. An example of the issue can be seen here http://jsfiddle.net/Gbp5U/ (issue only appears in IE8)
In IE8 when the content is scrolled to the bottom there is a bottom-padding of what appears to be 0px. All other browsers, that I have tested, show the bottom padding. The developer tool in IE8 reports the bottom-padding as 20px but to me that is clearly not the case.
Has anyone else come across this issue and found a solution. The only workaround I have for the moment is to force IE8 to compatibility mode which I would rather not do.
A suggested solution elsewhere was to place the div content within its own div with the appropriate padding as seen here: http://jsfiddle.net/Gbp5U/19/
I'm not a fan of it but I guess it works......
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Whenever I have content that expands the page height, a scrollbar appears on my rendered website. However, the scrollbar pushes my content to the left by the width of the scroll bar so when I navigate to a page where the height is less then the page height, there's a noticeable jump as the page width resizes. Is it possible to have the scrollbar sit on top of all my html content? Similar to how scrolling works in Chrome on iOS.
Ideally a css property like overflow:absolute where the scrollbar appears and the content isn't clipped would be the best but I know that doesn't exist.
EDIT:
In the image below, you can see that the scrollbar has a white background and has pushed my html content to the left. What I want is the html content to be underneath the scrollbar, as if the scrollbar had absolute positioning to the right.
I conferred with one of my colleagues who's running the same version of chrome as I am and his scrollbar does exactly what I want. Maybe AB testing on Google's part?
There is no reliable cross-browser way to do what you're looking for.
Different browsers handle the scrollbar differently -- some (including Safari and some versions of Chrome) already do exactly what you want, most others enforce a particular background-color and width for the scrollbar (not always the same width) and push the content over to make room. Any negative-margin or width-greater-than-100% trickery will either not work at all or will put some of your content underneath a non-transparent scrollbar in many browsers (and offscreen in others).
If the 'jump' when the scrollbar appears is too distracting, you can force the scrollbar to always be present with overflow-y:scroll.
Native scrollbar styling is limited, but here is a demo of how to do it:
body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
background-color: darkgrey;
outline: 1px solid slategrey;
}
http://codepen.io/zakkain/pen/phjBC
Chrome and IE respond to it very well. Firefox not so much, the issue is logged here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790 and is stale.
If you want firefox, you'll have to go with a custom scrollbar replacer.
And how to compensate for scrollbar is explained here: How to compensate for Vertical Scrollbar when it is not yet present
It works well, but most code pens can't show it, so you'll have to experiment on your own.
This is the OSX disappearing scrollbar issue (not sure if it's relevant for modern versions of OSX): CSS - Overflow: Scroll; - Always show vertical scroll bar?
As it would turn out, all I had to do was update my version of OSX...baffling. I'll accept #DanielBeck's answer because it's a reasonable answer to a coding question whereas here, the solution was to arbitrary update my laptop software.
I'm having a problem with floating a container to the right in IE7. Everything looks fine in IE8+, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari but the elements within the container wrap for some reason in IE7.
I've set up a fiddle at http://jsfiddle.net/aagC9/. The problem I'm seeing is visible in the IE7 Browser Mode/Document Mode found in IE9 (it's also in IE7 on XP but I figured this would be easier for people to check out).
While it seems like many people have run into similar problems, their solutions haven't worked for me. I've tried adding overflow: hidden and overflow: visible to both the container and elements in various combinations. I also tried setting a fixed width on the .message container, but that didn't seem to have any effect either. While I could just use a fixed left margin on .message, it doesn't work 100% since the IE7 doesn't support the box-sizing model.
Does anybody know the secret to getting this to work in IE7 with the float?
Thanks!
It has to do with your reliance on display:inline-block; which IE7 supports, just not always correctly. Actually, fix for it is pretty gross. But, as in this updated fiddle, it works.
If anyone has a better idea for a title, I'm all ears.
Here's a JSFiddle that demonstrates the problem: http://jsfiddle.net/VXsAg/
In a nutshell, I have an element with fixed height and stretch-to-contents width. If the contents are higher than the fixed height, there should be a vertical scrollbar. There should also be ONLY vertical scrollbar, because horizontally it can stretch as much as is needed anyway. Unfortunately I cannot get it to work in a cross-browser compatible way. Here's what I get (the top box is for reference, the bottom box demonstrates the problem):
In IE8, IE9 and Opera 11.60 it appears like this (very good):
In IE7, Chrome 17 and Firefoxes 3 & 10 it appears like this (disaster):
I can see why it happens (width is calculated before scrollbars are taken into account), but how can I work around it?
Apparently nobody knows. Well, I solved it via javascript. Basically I did the autosizing part myself. I calculated the size of the contents; calculated the size of the scrollbar; and set the width explicitly.
I recently just created a website for a company, http://visionaryminds.com/ , For the most part everything is good except for a few browser inconsistencies.
The reason I am posting is an inconstancy I noticed between Chrome and Firefox (IE also had this problem but I used conditional statements to fix them not realizing the problem bled into Firefox)
http://www.visionaryminds.com
When you open the page you will notice a section in the dark gray rounded container that says "Welcome!". In chrome, it is placed where it should be, creating a nice even margin around the entire container. However in Firefox and IE the margin is triple the size.
It appears that despite being in it's own container it's being pushed by the header container outside of it. Anyone have any ideas? I have been at this for days, playing with positioning and z-index with little luck.
Thanks to all who reply,
Spencer
Welcome to the world of negative margins.
In .content_container remove margin-top: -50px and use top: -50px instead.
I'm not sure if this is a bug in Google Chrome or if this is wanted, but it really annoys me: If I got something like
<body><div style="margin-bottom: 50px;">much content</div></body>
there is no margin shown by Chrome. The div just ends at the bottom browser edge. Literally, any other browser renders this correctly.
Wrap your whole site (or just the area that has the margin you want to capture) in a
<div style="overflow:auto;"></div>
If setting padding does not appeal to you, try the above. I didn't want to set padding, because a margin on the bottom of boxes is my standard way of making room for the next box when data is dynamic and I don't know whether there will be one.
Margins will not "bleed through" a box with overflow specified, so this fixes the problem in Chrome by allowing that last box to have margin inside the new overflow:auto div.
This change is inconsequential to the other browsers who were blocking that margin bleed anyway. I tested in IE 8 and up for regressions on that side and found none.
add a padding-bottom to the element containing your div, even if it's the body element.
This works in all browsers, so you will have to remove the bottom margin from the div.
On Google Chrome {padding-bottom: XXpx;} doesn't work, but {padding-bottom: XXem;} does.
Note the first uses pixels and second ems.
The css padding and margin directives work fine in IE, but not in Chrome. Chrome just ignores them, if they are placed in a .css file. To resolve this problem, put all the padding and margin instructions in a separate file within the <STYLE> tags, and then include it with the help of <?php include ('margins.php');?>. or <!--#include virtual="margins.php"--> into all of your pages, because these directives works in Chrome perfectly if they contained on the page.