Content cut off/missing scroll bar

ClaudiaSusana / 2011-02-06 19:56:12   

Hey guys,

So I have a page of credits on my site located here. Everything is fine and dandy except for one thing: there are a few items that, when the page is viewed on a smaller screen, don't show up. The page doesn't even have a scroll bar to allow the user to scroll down.

I searched the forums but couldn't find anything on this. Any thoughts as to what it might be/how I could fix it?

Thanks!

sampsjp / 2012-03-28 16:11:08   

Hi Claudia,
I'm having the same issue for a site.
Problem only happens in IE6

How did you fix it?

rickykappa / 2012-03-28 16:22:30   

is there still somebody who uses ie6 :-P
please read the forum rules, thankyou

sampsjp / 2012-03-29 10:02:22   

HI Ricky,
Unfortunately there is, and unfortunately so are a lot of the demographic that use his site.

Not sure what you mean by rules but if you are referring to a link to indexhibit it'sHere

sampsjp / 2012-03-29 10:04:03   

didnt link correctly... Link

G470 / 2012-03-29 19:28:36   

Looks like some wrong nested tags to me. Modern Browsers often do some kind of auto correction. Best point to start is validating your html. I get 88 errors on this site:
Validator

Sidenote: even microsoft stopped the support for ie6 ;)

sampsjp / 2012-04-03 12:31:12   

Hi G470 adn Ricky,
Thanks for your help!

Ran a validator and fixed most of the issues also downloaded ie9 on his computer and the scrollbars are still not there and most of the content still gets cut.

I've modified the css file trying to force the scrolling bars for whenever content overflows and I'm even checking screenshots on Adobe Browser Lab and everything seems fine on all browsers but when I check it on his computer the scroll bars are somehow gone

rickykappa / 2012-04-03 15:38:54   

is there a particular page that gives this problem?
btw did you try to empty his computer cache?

sampsjp / 2012-04-03 16:09:24   

Every single page that's bigger than his screen size. Did empty the cache.

His Resume for instance gets cut.

Thanks for following up

rickykappa / 2012-04-03 17:33:53   

I do have a small screen, the resume is quite long, but I can scroll that page. you mean that this page doesn't scroll with ie6?
this could possibly prevent to show a scrollbar:
#content { ...    overflow: visible !important; ... }
if you're lucky

G470 / 2012-04-04 06:44:49   

...sorry to say it again but I think the scrollbar is only out of sight.
Please validate your code. You still got some important errors. These things are often caused by wrong nested elements.

to force a scrollbar please use:

overflow:scroll

...overflow: visible will not show a scrollbar.
example

sampsjp / 2012-06-26 21:24:17   

Hi there, just remembered I never followed up on this.

It turned out the website had an "if IE' css stylesheet, and that stylesheet was hiding the scroll bar, so it didn't matter how much the main stylesheet changed explorer kept on blocking it.

It is fixed now, thank you all for your help amd thanks rickykappa

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