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Netscape 6.0 problem with overflow:auto;

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Jun 08.2004

Hello all,

Finished converting my site from tables to divs, but I now have a problem with displaying it in Netscape 6.0.

The site is here: [URL]http://www.bostonwood.co.uk[/URL]
The problem is that when you bring up the pages with overflow:auto; in the div that holds the sites content, it covers up 90% of the content with a blank nothingness. When I removed overflow:auto; or replaced it with overflow:hidden; it displayed correctly, but without the scrollbars (which are essential).

Does anyone know of a valid fix for this or what is going on so I can have a go myself?

It’s fine in Netscape 6.2. So should I even bother sorting it out for 6.0? I’m not sure how many people are still using 6.0 these days.

Cheers,
R

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@SamJun 08.2004 — Nice work... you're almost there, but you're still using crap like align=center... you're also using WAY too much markup... that design can be done in 5 divs (6 at the most) and an unordered list. Doing this should also fix a lot of issues with older browsers.
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@richiebmanauthorJun 08.2004 — Cheers Sam.

I have to use the align=center things for it to display properly in IE 5.0 and 5.5. I really didn't want to do this, but I found that these 2 browsers didn't accept

margin-left:auto;

margin-right:auto;

as a way to centre the website. Any other suggestion on a valid way to centre divs would be welcomed. I've tried removing the ie bug fixing divs, but the problem still occurs in Netscape 6.0 without these.

Also I've read about the unordered lists and inline list thing, which would cut down the amount of divs, but am taking things one step at a time.

R
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@SamJun 08.2004 — text-align:center on the body and text-align:left on the container div takes care of it
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@richiebmanauthorJun 08.2004 — I've removed all my align=center divs and updated my css and all is good with IE.

But still got that problem with with Netscape 6.0. Any takers?
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@richiebmanauthorJun 08.2004 — Again....apologies.

Since stripping the fat off my site during its conversion from tables to css divs, I [I]ironically[/I] forgot to remove an overflow:hidden; line from a different container. Upon removal....ta da...you guessed the rest.

Thanks to Sam though, whos post made me look over my code again.
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