Scrolling - aaaaarrrrggghhhh!!!!!

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 991

Hey,

Any reason why you get this horrible horizontal scrolling on this page, I've had a look in the code and can't see a reason why it does it, it's using the same code as the other pages, and they don't give scrolling!

http://mobile.bluesweb.co.uk/sms/

Any advice would be appreciated as it's driving me mad!

Thanks!

Justin

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 4:03 pm (10 years, 9 months ago)

There are a number of problems with your HTML, although I don't know which is causing this:

You have a body tag in the middle of the page
You have unclosed tags
You have a table which is 600 pixels wide (maybe that's too big?)

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 991

The coding irregulaties are how I code, I've never used tags, just something I've never done to be honest!

The body tag is probbably parsed from a .php file somewhere, I'll find it sometime, but the problem was defo the 600 table, is now fixed though, is marked as a % now.

Thanks for the help though, prevented me from going insane!

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 4:26 pm (10 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

The coding irregulaties are how I code, I've never used tags, just something I've never done to be honest!

It's a bad habit to get into, not using tags... It's not standard compliant, and some browsers (particularly NS) get confused by too many tags and no tags.