IE Bug With XHTML And iframe
Just wanted to post this info and fix. I drove myself nuts trying to fix this issue, until I finally found out that it is an IE Bug.
IE has a bug with XHTML Transistional and the use on an iframe.
Use XHTML and an iframe, and IE will display a horizontal scrollbar on the iframe, no matter what you do...it isn't going to go away.
The fix is to add this to your stylesheet:
html {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
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This goes into the sylesheet for the pages loding into the iframe, not on the page actually containing the iframe.
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It does valiadte but you will get a warning below your congratulations blurb:
Line : 18 property overflow-y does not exist for this profile, but is validated conforming to another profile
Just wanted to share so that others who run into the problem will know it's a bug.
Roo
Jack Michaelson posted this at 09:38 — 23rd May 2005.
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Thanx for sharing
But I believe that defining a proper width should make the scrollbar go away. I'll dig into this tonight, cause I'm at work right now.
Shakespeare: onclick || !(onclick)
Roo posted this at 10:37 — 23rd May 2005.
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Nope it won't...I promise...it's a bug!
JeevesBond posted this at 12:07 — 23rd May 2005.
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By the sounds of it Roo has done quite extensive testing of this bug Jack... You can try but you'll only end-up as frustrated as Roo is!
Thanks for sharing Roo, dont you just love ie - it's not a bug, it's a feature!
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Jack Michaelson posted this at 18:39 — 23rd May 2005.
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Check this site of mine
I know it doesn't validate XHTML Transitional (for other reasons, I should update it, oh oh where's some spare time
), but if you look at the 'dance music window', you'll see an iframe with no horizontal scrollbar. And I didn't use the overflow-y property.
Could be that I made somes mistakes, I make them all the time
but still: no overflow-y and no horizontal scrollbar.
Shakespeare: onclick || !(onclick)
Roo posted this at 19:42 — 23rd May 2005.
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Now try it with valid XHTML trans and valid CSS.
Well...that site is totally fudged in IE6. And I get a browser horizontal, scrollbar with both IE and Mozilla
It wasn't extensive testing, it was hair pulling site troubleshooting.
I wish I could recall the site where I found the info and fix, but I can't even remember the search words I used that finally found me a solution.
Try it!
Valid XHTML and CSS on both the iframed page, and the content pages....you'll see!
Roo
JeevesBond posted this at 12:20 — 24th May 2005.
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That's interesting... ie iframe bug - "you heard it here first!"
May many google searches land frustrated designers on this page, congrats on finding the solution Roo
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Renegade posted this at 04:42 — 25th May 2005.
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yip, thanks for the heads up Roo
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