width scroll thingy :-(

[MASSEY]

Does anyone know why the scroll bar has appeared at the bottom?

http://www.birminghamelectriciansltd.co.uk

Thanks

 

[stugster]

'cause the screen is too wide for the display.

You need to make sure your width is less than the monitor/resolution you're viewing on.

If I view a site on a monitor with resolution 800px by 600px, if the website is greater than 800px i'm going to see the horizontal scroll bar.

In reality, the site needs to be less than 800px wide to accomodate for the vertical scroll bar and a few pixels either side for the window itself.

There's a dated thread about it here: http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/standard-web-dimensions

Have a look at the www.graphicdesignforums.co.uk and see what they have to say about it

 

[Faevilangel]

You need to expand #wrapper in the css, make it 960px and see if it fixes it.

 

[fisicx]

Try using max-width: 960px in your css.

 

[Faevilangel]

Try using max-width: 960px in your css.

If he wanted to do that, better to go down the overflow:hidden; route...

 

[cmcp]

delete the line "overflow:auto".

this is sometimes used to clear floats but i can't see why you'd want it on that banner container.

EDIT

actually, you're not closing off your wrapper / banner tag properly actually. check for missing </div>s before you edit the styles.

 

[MASSEY]

delete the line "overflow:auto".

this is sometimes used to clear floats but i can't see why you'd want it on that banner container.

EDIT

actually, you're not closing off your wrapper / banner tag properly actually. check for missing </div>s before you edit the styles.

Yeah but if you look the dam scroll is on every page so it must be the style sheet?

Just double checking.

 

[MASSEY]

You need to expand #wrapper in the css, make it 960px and see if it fixes it.

Thats the one gareth!,

Its been a long day.

Thanks for the help

 

[cmcp]

Yeah but if you look the dam scroll is on every page so it must be the style sheet?

Just double checking.

Your tags aren't closed correctly so you're applying CSS to elements that are behaving differently than you're thinking.

It's like building on quick sand.

 

[MASSEY]

Your tags aren't closed correctly so you're applying CSS to elements that are behaving differently than you're thinking.

It's like building on quick sand.

Lol,

i will go through and iron out all my valid errors soon i havent looked in a while.


i know how it bugs all you coders

 

[cmcp]

Fair play, but you misunderstand me.

I'm not criticising your code (although it is terrible), I'm saying that if your tags aren't closed properly and you try to visually style your site like that, when you do close the tags the styles will all be wrong (because if the tags aren't closed properly you're applying styles to the wrong elements) and could very well change the entire way the site looks.

 

[MASSEY]

Yes its no problem.

I know what code is wrong from looking at it. I have just been rushing it with cs5 and notepad.

All will be rectified shortly.

 

[cmcp]

cool. good on you for getting your hands dirty