[pmwiki-users] Srolling boxes

[Chris Cox]

Pico wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:10:34AM +1200, John Rankin wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 7 June 2006 6:02 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>  -- All of the IE scrollbars for "overflow=auto" hide the last line of 
>>>>     preformatted text; that is, one has to scroll vertically in order to 
>>>>     see the last line.
>>> What happens if you add a padding-bottom which *should* go between the
>>> text and the scroll bar?
>> The padding allows the display box to grow big enough to see the
>> last line, but a vertical scrollbar still exists (presumably to be
>> able to scroll to see the padding that is underneath the horizontal
>> scrollbar).
>>
>> Surprisingly, a bottom-padding of at least 1 pixel causes the 
>> horizontal scrollbar to suddenly appear in Firefox
>> as it is supposed to.
>>
>> So, that leaves us with the following,
>>
>>     pre { overflow:auto; padding-bottom:1px; }
>>
>> which causes most browsers to put a scrollbar on the text
>> only when it's larger than the available space, and we
>> handle IE's quirks with the following in the template:
>>
>>     <!--[if IE]>
>>       <style type='text/css' media='screen'>
>>         pre { width:800px; padding-bottom:1.33em; }
>>       <style>
>>     <![endif]-->
>>
>> Pm
>>
> 
> Earlier the test page was working on every browser I tested for Mac OS 
> X, but right now, half don't display the scrollbar and one doesn't even 
> display the text for the overflow=auto padding-bottom:1px div
> 
> Scrollbar and text display:
> 
> Camino v 2006021400 (1.0)
> Firefox v 1.5.0.3
> Netscape v 7.1
> 
> Text displays, but no scrollbar:
> 
> Safari v 2.0.3
> iCab v B382 (3.0.2)
> Omniweb v 5.1.2
> 
> No text or scrollbar:
> 
> Internet Explorer v 5.2

How about using the includeSite (or other) recipe
and sticking it into an IFrame.... perhaps that
would be the portable answer??

(:includeSite http://url-to-some-html-or-wiki-page-with-no-theme
border=0 width=100% height=60:)