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Div overflow:auto causes unecessary vertical scrollbar in IE7

Asked by houndour in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Web Languages/Standards

Tags: , , , ,

This is some test code I'm working on to see the different effects across browsers:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>bob</title>
<style type="text/css">

#div_container {
      width: 250px;
      border: 1px solid #0000ff;
      padding: 5px;
      
}

#div_one {
      width:100%;
      overflow:auto;
      position:relative;
      border: 1px solid #ff0000;
      margin-bottom: 5px;

}

#div_two {
      overflow: scroll;
      border: 1px solid #ffff00;
      margin-bottom: 5px;
}

#div_three {
      overflow: hidden;
      border: 1px solid #ff00ff;
      margin-bottom: 5px;
}

#div_four {
      overflow: visible;
      border: 1px solid #00ff00;
      margin-bottom: 5px;
}

#div_five {
      overflow: auto;
      border: 1px solid #00ffff;
      margin-bottom: 5px;
}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<div id="div_container">

<div id="div_one">

<table>
      <tr>
            <td>TEST div1 12345678901234567890123456789012345</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>2</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>3</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>4</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>5</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>6</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>7</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>8</td>
      </tr>
</table>
</div>

<div id="div_two">
<table>
      <tr>
            <td>overflow: scroll; div2 12345678901234567890123456789012345</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>2</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>3</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>4</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>5</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>6</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>7</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>8</td>
      </tr>
</table>
</div>


<div id="div_three">
<table>
      <tr>
            <td>overflow: hidden; div3 12345678901234567890123456789012345</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>2</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>3</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>4</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>5</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>6</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>7</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>8</td>
      </tr>
</table>
</div>

<div id="div_four">
<table>
      <tr>
            <td>overflow: visible; div4 12345678901234567890123456789012345</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>2</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>3</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>4</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>5</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>6</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>7</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>8</td>
      </tr>
</table>
</div>

<div id="div_five">
<table>
      <tr>
            <td>overflow: auto; div4 12345678901234567890123456789012345</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>2</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>3</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>4</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>5</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>6</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>7</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>8</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
</table>
</div>

</div>
</body>

</html>



Concentrating on div1:
In IE7 you can hopefully see that when the horizontal scrollbar is needed, it has to put a vertical scrollbar in to allow for the horizontal scrollbar.

I had a work around (using css3 overflow-x and y) but then this fails to work in Safari.

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