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patric design
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: 290 km/h, fast lane, Autobahn, Germany
Insane since: Feb 2001

IP logged posted posted 06-15-2002 02:33 Edit Quote

I almost went mad trying to find out why my colored scrollbar doesn't appear in IE. I played around with TopStyle's option a bit and found out that it has to do with the doctype. It displays fine in HTML 4.0 and 4.01 Transitional, but in no other doctype.

Please, is there a workaround or do i have to dismiss my colored scrollbar if i want an XHTML compliant site?

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Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

IP logged posted posted 06-15-2002 03:16 Edit Quote

Seeing as colored scrollbars aren't in the standards, I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.

I dislike colored scrollbars myself.

patric design
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: 290 km/h, fast lane, Autobahn, Germany
Insane since: Feb 2001

IP logged posted posted 06-15-2002 03:23 Edit Quote

Well I have no particualr like/dislike towards them but in this case it would go extremely well with the design...yet I'd like to keep the site 100% XHTML compliant...

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Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

IP logged posted posted 06-15-2002 03:38 Edit Quote

I am a little surprised that the language the page is written in has a bearing on how the CSS is interpreted, but browsers do weird things with those doctypes. Do keep in mind that if you want your *CSS* to be compliant also, scrollbar colors should be left out.

Emperor
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Cell 53, East Wing
Insane since: Jul 2001

IP logged posted posted 06-15-2002 04:30 Edit Quote

Do you mean CSS instead of XHTML as styles like the scrollbar have no bearing on XHTML (as far as I'm aware) but those browser-specific non-standard styles will get flagged as being incorrect when test your CSS over at W3C. You can safely ignore those error warnings.

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Pugzly
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: 127.0.0.1
Insane since: Apr 2000

IP logged posted posted 06-15-2002 05:26 Edit Quote

And the ability to remove your scrollbars with CSS doesn't work either when using the XHTML DOCTYPEs. A drag....

Emperor
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From: Cell 53, East Wing
Insane since: Jul 2001

IP logged posted posted 06-15-2002 14:58 Edit Quote

Pugzly: Ah that will explain problems we've been having with the scrollbars in the GN redesign. IE5.5 shows them fine but IE6 doesn't. Stinker.

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Pugzly
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: 127.0.0.1
Insane since: Apr 2000

IP logged posted posted 06-15-2002 15:09 Edit Quote

Yeah, that pissed me off as well when I was working on a site for a client. I couldn't figure out WHY the darn things wouldn't go away, when I COPIED & PASTED known working code......

kuckus
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Berlin (almost)
Insane since: Dec 2001

IP logged posted posted 06-15-2002 15:33 Edit Quote

Is it possible to tell Mozilla to display scrollbars on every page, even when they're not needed? I have a site where the content is centered horizontally, and there are some pretty short pages so that everything slips some pixels to the right when there aren't any scrollbars...

It's no big problem of course, but would still be handy to know how to control Mozilla's scrollbars if there is a way of doing so.

kuckus (cell #282)



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