TSGL: Son looking for solution.

[Baracouder]

Thanks for the replies, he has re installed the graphic driver and reset 
the resolution and all is well again.

Thats one of my kids sorted.....Next ;)

Regards, Alan.

H Davis wrote:
> 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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