Topic: forcing scrollbars in netscape/mozzy

is there a simple way to force netscape/mozilla to display a vertical scrollbar in the browser window even if there isn't enough content to make it required? in internet explorer they're always there, regardless of the length of page.

i don't want to be able to "scroll" or anything, it's just that the new site i'm designing would look better in my opinion if the content always stayed in the same place on the browser's window regardless of how long the page was.

hope that's an easy one,
mikey milker

oh yeah and preferably using css so i don't have to cut/paste new code into 100 different pages (static or death!).

I haven't tested it yet, but overflow: scroll; in the body styles might do the trick.

kuckus (cell #282)

yeah i messed around with overflow: scroll/auto/yes/no/pplleeeaasseee last night but didn't have any luck. searching through the w3 css documents i couldn't find anything useful last night or this morning... oh well.

I just found that there is a Mozilla-specific overflow property called -moz-scrollbars-vertical. But I wouldn't recommend you use it since it behaves quite buggy in the Mozilla 1.0 I have installed... I had to remove all page margins and set the body's height to 100% to make them act somewhat like normal scollbars do, and even then I couldn't scroll up and down by using my mouse wheel. Maybe that has been fixed in a later build, but I wouldn't go through so much hassle only to have some scrollbars where they aren't even needed

kuckus (cell #282)