Author Topic: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places. (Read 6731 times)

Joe · « **on:** May 01, 2006, 09:19:28 pm »

Firefox is putting scrollbars in some pretty weird places:

(see to the right side of post)

Any idea what's causing this weirdness?

Quik · « **Reply #1 on:** May 01, 2006, 09:32:16 pm »

Your theme.

Joe · « **Reply #2 on:** May 01, 2006, 09:38:01 pm »

Nah, they all do it.

deadly7 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 01, 2006, 09:44:34 pm »

Your resolution sucks at life, get a bigger monitor/better video card.

rabbit · « **Reply #4 on:** May 01, 2006, 09:49:25 pm »

It does that for me too, but only when there's a quote/code tag. Even if there is plenty of space, now matter how big I make the window, the scrollbar is still there.

Sidoh · « **Reply #5 on:** May 01, 2006, 09:52:29 pm »

It's the fault of the theme or the browser parsing the theme, obviously.

I've never experienced this personally, so I'd recommend reinstalling Firefox? I could pull a Blizzard and say: "It's working as intended."

Joe · « **Reply #6 on:** May 01, 2006, 10:01:58 pm »

Quote from: deadly7 on May 01, 2006, 09:44:34 pm

Your resolution sucks at life, get a bigger monitor/better video card.

I don't have money to blow on a video card I'll never use for anything this one can't do.
My 17-inch monitor is quite nice, thank you.
If 1280x1024 sucks at life I'd hate to see what you're using for a monitor.

Quote from: rabbit on May 01, 2006, 09:49:25 pm

[...] Even if there is plenty of space, now matter how big I make the window, the scrollbar is still there.

Yeah, the picture doesn't do a great job of showing this, but that's the problem.

Quote from: Sidoh on May 01, 2006, 09:52:29 pm

It's the fault of the theme or the browser parsing the theme, obviously.

Changing the theme did nothing.

Quote from: Sidoh on May 01, 2006, 09:52:29 pm

I've never experienced this personally, so I'd recommend reinstalling Firefox?

Tried reinstalling Firefox (well, upgrading, but the problem is in both versions). If you're a Linux user, what window manger do you use? I'm using GNOME.

Sidoh · « **Reply #7 on:** May 01, 2006, 10:06:49 pm »

Quote from: Joe on May 01, 2006, 10:01:58 pm

Changing the theme did nothing.

http://youlose.ytmnd.com

Quote from: Joe on May 01, 2006, 10:01:58 pm

Tried reinstalling Firefox (well, upgrading, but the problem is in both versions). If you're a Linux user, what window manger do you use? I'm using GNOME.

XFCE, Window Maker, Fluxbox and KDE. I've never ran into this problem.

Also, I assume you've tried viewing the page in alternate browsers?

CrAz3D · « **Reply #8 on:** May 01, 2006, 10:17:16 pm »

Mine does that, sometimes, too...depends on the site I'm at usually.

Might be an option. Personally, I like it when there are overly wide pages/images so i can just scroll through that one post.

Quik · « **Reply #9 on:** May 01, 2006, 10:20:31 pm »

My theme doesn't do it, but when I change themes it does. I blame shitty themes.

Sidoh · « **Reply #10 on:** May 01, 2006, 10:34:08 pm »

Quote from: CrAz3D on May 01, 2006, 10:17:16 pm

Mine does that, sometimes, too...depends on the site I'm at usually.

Might be an option. Personally, I like it when there are overly wide pages/images so i can just scroll through that one post.

Yeah, it's normal for it to happen on the default theme when a post extends a resolution's horizontal limit. However, Joe's example shows vertical scrollbars, which should never be present for a normal post.

For those curious (Quik will know this. Sorry in advance if you do too.), it's the result of setting the CSS property overflow to auto. (overflow: auto;).

Joe · « **Reply #11 on:** May 02, 2006, 08:04:49 am »

Oh, you meant SMF theme? Haha, I thought you meant GNOME theme.

Sidoh · « **Reply #12 on:** May 02, 2006, 10:45:48 am »

Quote from: Joe on May 02, 2006, 08:04:49 am

Oh, you meant SMF theme? Haha, I thought you meant GNOME theme.

...

* Sidoh slaps Joe.

MyndFyre · « **Reply #13 on:** May 02, 2006, 11:34:31 am »

Quote from: Sidoh on May 02, 2006, 10:45:48 am

Quote from: Joe on May 02, 2006, 08:04:49 am
Oh, you meant SMF theme? Haha, I thought you meant GNOME theme.

...

* Sidoh slaps Joe.

/cheer Sidoh

Joe · « **Reply #14 on:** May 02, 2006, 05:09:23 pm »

* Joe cries at the feet of Sidoh and MyndFyre.

Newby · « **Reply #15 on:** May 02, 2006, 05:15:36 pm »

Quote from: Joe on May 02, 2006, 08:04:49 am

Oh, you meant SMF theme? Haha, I thought you meant GNOME theme.

...

A browser parses your GNOME theme? (Not your system parses your GNOME theme and applies it to your browser.)

iago · « **Reply #16 on:** May 02, 2006, 05:49:10 pm »

It's actually due to font size, if you want to be able to fix it without changing themes.

Old themese don't use the scrolling, which is bad if somebod posts a big picture or a lot of code.

Quik · « **Reply #17 on:** May 02, 2006, 08:08:48 pm »

Quote from: Sidoh on May 01, 2006, 10:34:08 pm

Quote from: CrAz3D on May 01, 2006, 10:17:16 pm
Mine does that, sometimes, too...depends on the site I'm at usually.

Might be an option. Personally, I like it when there are overly wide pages/images so i can just scroll through that one post.

Yeah, it's normal for it to happen on the default theme when a post extends a resolution's horizontal limit. However, Joe's example shows vertical scrollbars, which should never be present for a normal post.

For those curious (Quik will know this. Sorry in advance if you do too.), it's the result of setting the CSS property overflow to auto. (overflow: auto;).

Why else would I continuously say what I have been? :p

Quote from: iago on May 02, 2006, 05:49:10 pm

It's actually due to font size, if you want to be able to fix it without changing themes.

Old themese don't use the scrolling, which is bad if somebod posts a big picture or a lot of code.

I prefer older themes, because people should get bitched at when they post big pictures, and not just have the browser accomodate. I prefer the older, traditional method, but that's just personal preference. It shouldn't become an issue too often.

Super_X · « **Reply #18 on:** May 02, 2006, 10:23:35 pm »

I've got that same problem, I knew it was the theme, but I've found that if there's a post with two or three verticle spaces <enter keys> after all the text, I don't get tat problem.

igimo1 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 03, 2006, 02:40:39 am »

Mine does this all the time, on a default installation of Firefox. I don't complain.

iago · « **Reply #20 on:** May 03, 2006, 08:02:13 am »

You can probably fix it by shrinking the default font size. But who really cares?

Super_X · « **Reply #21 on:** May 03, 2006, 07:50:32 pm »

Crazy.

Joe · « **Reply #22 on:** May 03, 2006, 10:44:27 pm »

Making it one-bigger or one smaller fixed it. The encouragement I needed to make it smaller has finally arived. ^_^

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