overflow: auto IE5 Mac problem

[kelly001]

When using overflow: auto for an element inside a page, the page nonetheless becomes long enough to contain the entire content of the element, even though part of it is hidden. This causes your page to scroll down as far as where the hidden content goes. This is a known bug in IE5 for Mac and very annoying to me. Has anyone found a workaround???
an example of this bug is
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Eppk/js/ie5mac/auto.html

[kelly001]

F.Y.I if anyone is ever researching this bug.

No one has been able to provide a direct workaround to this problem. What you can do instead is create a different page and use an iframe instead of a div layer. iframes display perfectly in IE5 though they can be fussy and not totally supported in other browsers.

Then on your original page you just add a javascript to automatically redirect any Mac IE5.0 to the other page with the iframe. The javascript could be something like this

<script language="JavaScript">
if(navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 5.")!=(-1)
&& navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Macintosh")!=(-1)) {
top.location.href = "infosfake.html";
}
</script>


Good luck.

[This message was edited by kelly001 on January 20, 2003 at 08:18.]

[shishira]

hi

have u tried useing the safari browser avialble at apple.com


keep smileing
shira