TSGL: Son looking for solution.

[H Davis]

Alan,

It's not clear to me just what your son's problem is.

Whether you get the scroll bars is determined by your screen resolution 
and how the web designer set up the page. Most web pages will show the 
right scroll bar because the most pages are longer than the screen. If 
the page is designed for a fixed width that is wider than your screen 
setting you will also get the bottom scroll bar. The only way to avoid 
this is to change your screen resolution to be wider than the page in 
pixels (assuming your browser window is maximized).

Changing the text size will not help if the page is a fixed width. The 
text will re-wrap but since the width of the page is fixed by the design 
you'll still get the bottom scroll bar. It's possible that on a short 
page the smaller font size will result in fewer text lines to the point 
that the right scroll bar is no longer needed but this is determined by 
the browser for this particular page.

Many pages use a so called fluid design where the width is specified as 
a percentage of the screen width, commonly 100%; or maybe 90% to show a 
colored background at the edges. These pages will never (as long as the 
designer did it right) show the bottom scroll bar since the browser 
adjusts the page components and wraps the text to accommodate whatever 
screen width it encounters.

There can still be problems however if the page designer is 
inexperienced (ask me how I know this). A common screen width is 1024 
px. If the designer designs a page with a fixed width of 1024 px it 
probably will still show the bottom scroll bar (with only a tiny bit of 
available scrolling). This is because the page is long enough to require 
the right scroll bar which reduces the viewable space by 50 px or so. 
The page at 1024 px is still wider than the available width in the 
browser, 976 px, so the scroll bar is still needed. Different browsers 
handle this problem differently.

Can you expound on the problem a little more if the above isn't related 
to his problem.

H Davis

Baracouder wrote:
> Hi all, my son has just asked me for advice.
>
> When he opens up his browser IE the pages are all displayed with a 
> scroll bar on the side and also the bottom which he does not want. I 
> suggested he change the screen resolution but found out he had tried 
> that. He is going to try reinstalling the graphics driver and get back 
> to me. Have you got a solution to this? Thanks.
>
> Regards, Alan.
>
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