I have this problem where i cant get rid of the horizontal scrollbar in frames. Is there anyway i can get rid of it manually? But i still do need vertical scrollbar for my mainframe.

The only way I have found to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar is to ensure that the content of the affected frame is no wider than the frame it is to be viewed in. Of course, when judging the width of the content you have to take into account the 16 or so pixels that the vertical scrollbar consumes. This, of course, only works if you statically limit the frameset so that it's size cannot be altered by the user when or if they resize their browser window.

I hope that's of some help.

Yeah i know i have to restrict the size of the frame. But somehow it still gets a horizontal scrollbar and looks unsightly. Do you by any chance know how i can centralize the left frame consistently with the top and mainframe?

I have been having trouble with that and causing the horizontal scrollbar to come out.

It would help if I could see the code behind the page. If you can let me have the URL I will take a look and see if I can sort this for you.

Hi,

Here are the 3 html files that i wish to put inside the frames. 1 top, left and main frame. I want to align them all in the centre of the page, i dont want the tables to be 100% and fit into the whole page. You know what i mean? Anyway, thanks a lot for your help.

I have had a quick play tonight and this appears to be an IE specific problem as I cannot emulate the problme in Firefox (I have checked it in IE and sure enough there is a horizontal scroll bar).

I will do some more playing over the next couple of days and get back to you.

Incidentally, at the bottom of the page that you want as the main frame you have a very curious arrangement of a <td> folloed by a <div align="center"> and then <center>, this last one having been deprecated some time ago. This can all be reduced to <td align=center>. Oh, and on the subject of deprecated tags - HTML 4 deprecated the use of the <font> tag. You have a large amount of in line styles that would be much better put into a CSS file.

Anyway, I will get back to you in the next couple of days once I have had a play around with the code and come up with a fix for you.

Originally Posted by shaoen01

I have this problem where i cant get rid of the horizontal scrollbar in frames. Is there anyway i can get rid of it manually? But i still do need vertical scrollbar for my mainframe.

Simple really (when you know how ) if you know that your iFrame content will be larger than the iFrame just set scrolling="yes"
e.g.

<iframe src="content.html" name="maincontent" width="400" height="500" scrolling="yes" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Hope that helps...

EDIT: Oh wait you said frames ..sorry it is 3:08 in the morning

Thanks for all the reply and help. I want to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar on my mainframe and you want me to insert scrolling="yes"? I dont understand why i should do that ... ?

no sorry I thought you wanted it removed on an iFrame. I didnt read your post properly. If you are using iFrames just put tht html in and it should work as it l;ets the iframe know that there will be vertical scrolling so it omits the horizontal bar ...or summin.

But im not sure how to remove it on a normal frame....

Oh okay ... Can you tell me more about iframes? Can you let me see a website using iframes? Is it compatible with Dreamweaver? Thanks

Ok, I've had a good poke around with the code, and the problem seems to be IE specific. In Firefox the frame simply shows a vertical scrollbar, but IE insists that if you have one, you need both. This seems to be true even if the frame is full screen width and the table within it is only 20 pixels wide. I will keep on poking around over the weekend to see what I can come up with. There is a solution there somewhere, I just know it, but it eludes me at the moment.

Really? Its just an IE problem? Thanks a lot for helping me, really appreciate it. =)

Seems to be, but there has to be an IE fix and I'll find it ... not having that little ******* beat me lol

I have the same problem. There's a horizntal scroll bar in my frame in ie but not fire fox.

hey ... i found out how to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar in IE. You insert scrolling = "yes" in the mainframe. Here is a sample code:

<frame src="home.html" name="mainFrame" scrolling="yes">

I just tried brokensoul2271 has said, dont know why i did it but i did. So it works for me, let me know if it works for you guys too. Thanks for help all!

Cheers man! =)

Is there anyway to get rid of the scrollbar track when there´s nothing to scroll?
Some of my pages need to scroll because of the amount of text, but other pages are carefully design to be within the hight/widht of the iFrame. In those cases the faded scrollbar track really don´t look good.

By the way. I´m trying to alter the look of the scrollbar by adding this to the css file:

BODY 
{scrollbar-face-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-shadow-color: #999999; 
scrollbar-highlight-color: #999999; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #999999; 
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #999999; scrollbar-track-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #FF9933}

No luck. anybody know why?

hey thx i needed this as well aweosme thx alot for the thread

Just wanted to add a reply to say a huge thank you for this thread! I had the exact same problem and this fixed it for me!