No jump form scroll bar?

that's a great question. I've always been frustrated with that, but never thought to ask someone. Hmm...

-je

The most straight forward approach would be to have the scroll bar present always.

andyjamesnelson said:

That seems to give one a white bar in which the scroll bar would sit when there isn't enough content on the page.

I've found that height:101% on html seems to work pretty well.

Not sure if there are any bad side effects.

Andy

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having a very small sliver of scroll bar no matter how tall your window is can be very annoying to users...

I know it annoys me...



angelwatt's solution is the best...

andyjamesnelson said:

I am just not sure how to us anglewatt's suggestion?

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Well, you never gave any code, so I can't tell you how to apply it. If you want another solution you can use,

But you may not like the result. There'll be no scroll bar, but some content may be inaccessible. You have to realize these scroll bars exist for a reason, and trying to modify how they behave will only result in ruining the user experience.

andyjamesnelson said:

Hey

I'm working on a page thats often going to go from having very little content to lots of content in the same window.

I was wondering if there is a good way to stop the scroll bar jumping the page left a bit?

Andy

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Consider a design change -- i.e. displaying a window popup with the updated content, but a REALLY cool one...

For example use JQuery with the Facebook plugin and add either a link or an onLoad event to trigger a cool looking 3D/shadowed popup window which contains the new content in the form of an .html file. You can then add in the CSS there to display the scroll bars when necessary - the plugin automatically sizes the window for you. This is actually quite nice looking compared to the browser window scroll bars. The window includes "Close" icon, too. Just a suggestion as to an alternative approach.

-jim