Re: Quantity of Content in an Element

Hello Helder,

Many thanks for the reply. You are right, I skipped a good deal of 
relevant information.

I have since discovered that the behavior had little to do with the CSS 
per se. Rather, it was normal browser behavior when the page is longer 
than the height of the browser window. The "shift" was only the 
difference between pages that were long enough to scroll, and those that 
were not.

I will look at the documents you sent along. Thank you again, Helder.

Warm regards,

Bill B

Helder Magalhães wrote:
> Hi Bill,
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>> This works flawlessly until I exceed a certain amount of content.
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> How much content would it be? Should one try to guess?... ;-p
>
> Attaching a simple HTML file which reproduces the symptoms would help
> a lot more helpful than pasting code snippets. Of course relevant code
> can (and should) be pasted into the message in order to avoid anyone
> to try interpreting the whole raw test case. But, in the meantime, in
> order to try evaluating the problem I had to a) copy+paste the
> snippets into an HTML file and b) try to guess the missing bits. I'm
> attaching my interpretation of your testcase ("Amaya-Testcase.html")
> for reference.
>
> Also, you don't state in which Amaya version is this occurring (Help,
> About Amaya) nor environment (operating system, including version
> and/or service pack). Something which usually helps as well is
> comparing with a different browser (such as Firefox) and state the
> confrontation result (for example, "Firefox [version] renders as
> expected").
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>> It then causes the entire page to shift to the left about 10px or so.
>> I'm baffled. Any suggestions on where to look?
>>     
>
> I haven't been able to reproduce using Amata 11.3 (Nov 17 2009) on
> Windows Vista SP2. The only thing which made the thing move left was
> the vertical scrollbar displaying whenever needed (whenever the window
> size wasn't enough to show entire contents and/or I manually added
> content). If that was your problem, then I suggest getting familiar
> with absolute positioning and/or the CSS overflow property. ;-)
>
> As a side note, the only unexpected thing in the test case was the
> excess of vertical whitespace in Amaya compared to Firefox (3.5.5,
> also on Windows Vista SP2). Two screenshots of the rendering result
> ("Amaya-RenderingScreenshot.png" and
> "Firefox-RenderingScreenshot.png") are attached as well for
> comparison.
>
>
>   
>> Regards and thank you,
>>     
>
> Hope this helps,
>  Helder
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