Fake scroll bar

[johne53]

This isn't really a Xara question but i thought someone here might know the answer.

When I was researching one of my problems (maybe about a fortnight ago) I stumbled across a web site that gave a short section of code that you could add to your web pages. The code forced every page to have a scroll bar, even if it didn't need one. The basic idea was to force all your site's pages to have the same width in situations where some needed a scroll bar but others didn't.

I should have bookmarked the page but I didn't. Does anyone know how to go about achieving this?

[Drwyd]

Setting your page height to 1050pix should do the trick.

right click >> page options

Drwyd

[johne53]

Thanks for the suggestion but I think that would leave an ugly white gap at the bottom of my page. This was some kind of JavaScript solution. I wish I could find it now....

[Edit...] I found something that suggests it can be done by adding this to my style sheet:-

html { /* Force vertical scrollbar to prevent page shift "jog" */
	/* IE */
	overflow-y: scroll; 
	/* Moz */
	height: 100%;
	margin-bottom: 0.1em;
}

Haven't tried it yet though.

[Drwyd]

I have used the following with success with two of my handcoded sites:-

html {
	min-height: 100%;
	margin-bottom: 1px;
	}

It seems to work with nearly all browsers. Edit: "XHTML 1.0 Strict"

Drwyd