After upgrading to Freeway Pro 5 I noticed that many of my pages would no longer allow me to scroll in order to view the content when using IE6. The scroll bar would either be missing or it would simply not allow enough scrolling to view the content at the bottom of the page.
I only observed this behavior when using IE6 for Windows. IE for the Mac, Safari and Firefox allowed scrolling as normal. I have not tested other browsers. I’ve read that some others have been experiencing the same issue.
During my search for answers I came across this informative article. It also includes a work around for the bug in Internet Explorer 5 through 6. I am currently at work, but I plan to try the work around as soon as I can.
I this appears on FW5 pages in IE6 with page alignment set to none
put
#PageDiv { height: 100%; }
Before And this should fix it.
David
On 29 Apr 2008, at 19:37, Jeffrey Grinnell wrote:
After upgrading to Freeway Pro 5 I noticed that many of my pages would no longer allow me to scroll in order to view the content when using IE6. The scroll bar would either be missing or it would simply not allow enough scrolling to view the content at the bottom of the page.
I only observed this behavior when using IE6 for Windows. IE for the Mac, Safari and Firefox allowed scrolling as normal. I have not tested other browsers. I’ve read that some others have been experiencing the same issue.
During my search for answers I came across this informative article. It also includes a work around for the bug in Internet Explorer 5 through 6. I am currently at work, but I plan to try the work around as soon as I can. http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/unscrollable.html
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I had downloaded the action previously that supposedly fixed this and it still didn’t work (at least on my end.)
After adding this change, things scroll perfectly. I had my site aligned to none by the way. I wonder if everything would have been scrollable if i aligned left. Hmmm…
Yes, thanks David. That worked for me. All my pages are based on one master so I simply copied your style line and inserted it as HTML markup onto the master page before .
Based on the article I linked to it seems that if the relative container (in this case the page) has no dimensions then this bug will become evident with IE6. In the article they provide a work around that involves giving that relative container height:1%, which is enough to force IE to work correctly with the scroll bars. Yours does the same with height:100%.
I wonder, if this is something that Softpress can address by modifying the default ie6.css file in some way? It looks like if I set the compatibility to IE6/IE7 then code is inserted to check for IE <7 and if found it uses ie6.css. Could a work around like this be incorporated there by default?