Question
I have a website that is perfectely centered aligned. The CSS code works fine. The problem doesn't really have to do with CSS. I have headers for each page that perfectely match eachother.
However, when the content gets larger, Opera and FireFox show a scrollbar at the left so you can scroll to the content not on the screen. This makes my site jump a few pixels to the left. Thus the headers are not perfectely aligned anymore.
IE always has a scrollbar, so the site never jumps around in IE.
Does anyone know a JavaScript/CSS/HTML solution for this problem?
Solution
I use
html { overflow-y: scroll; }
To standardize the scrollbar behavior in IE and FF
OTHER TIPS
FWIW: I use
html { height: 101%; }
to force scrollbars to always appear in Firefox.
Are you aligning with percentage widths or fixed widths? I'm also guessing you're applying a background to the body - I've had this problem myself.
It'll be much easier to help you if you upload the page so we can see the source code however.
#middle
{
position: relative;
margin: 0px auto 0px auto;
width: 1000px;
max-width: 1000px;
}
is my centered DIV
Well you don't need the position: relative;
- it should work fine without it.
I take it that div
has to be 1000px
wide? It would still be a lot easier to answer this with the actual website.