Disable Vertical Scroll Bars

[David Rwj Cherry CS2000]

is there any way to disable or lock vertical scroll bars on a browser
window? im a newbie and i just don't want them to appear on my screen.
sometimes they appear on IE but not on mozilla.

any ideas would be most appreciated.

[kaeli]

Re: Disable Vertical Scroll Bars

In article <4030d47a$1@nnt phost.cis.strat h.ac.uk>,
dcherry+usenet@ cis.strath.ac.u k enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> is there any way to disable or lock vertical scroll bars on a browser
> window? im a newbie and i just don't want them to appear on my screen.
> sometimes they appear on IE but not on mozilla.
>
> any ideas would be most appreciated.
>
>[/color]

Is this for a site other people are going to look at?
If so, they might want to increase the font size so they can read it.
Making the scroll bars go away is a Bad Thing (tm) for accessibility
reasons. Some people don't have good eyesight and may need to increase
the font size to as large as it goes. This usually makes any "normal"
page have to scroll.

As to removing them from an open window, no. You can open a new window
with no scrollbars, but (see above) it's a Bad Idea (tm) for internet
sites.

If you meant you want your own personal browser to not show scollbars on
any page, I don't think you can do that. You could make a custom HTA
that didn't have them, in theory.

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[Grant Wagner]

Re: Disable Vertical Scroll Bars

kaeli wrote:
[color=blue]
> In article <4030d47a$1@nnt phost.cis.strat h.ac.uk>,
> dcherry+usenet@ cis.strath.ac.u k enlightened us with...[color=green]
> > is there any way to disable or lock vertical scroll bars on a browser
> > window? im a newbie and i just don't want them to appear on my screen.
> > sometimes they appear on IE but not on mozilla.
> >
> > any ideas would be most appreciated.[/color]
>
>
> If you meant you want your own personal browser to not show scollbars on
> any page, I don't think you can do that. You could make a custom HTA
> that didn't have them, in theory.[/color]

Actually, it is possible to control things like scrollbars in your own
browser. Create a css file with something like:

body { overflow-x: hidden ! important; }

Then in Internet Explorer, go to Tools -> Internet Options,
Accessibility.. ., check "Format documents using my style sheet", then
Browse... and specify the css file created above. You will never get a
horizontal scrollbar on any Web page again.

And although I don't think Firefox exposes the functionality directly
(although it may in some Extension or other), you can achieve the same
effect in Firefox by editing <Firefox directory>/res/html.css and adding

body { overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical ! important; }

Although it doesn't appear to do what I think it should be doing, however it
does suppress horizontal scrollbars (in addition to doing odd things to the
vertical one). Also note that the res directory contains other css files
such as forms.css, which contains default CSS for all form elements. For
example, if you always want text inputs on forms to have a single pixel
black border, you can change:

input {
...
border: 2px inset ThreeDFace;
...
}

to

input {
...
border: 1px solid Black ! important;
...
}

By the way, I'm not recommending this, you could probably make a huge mess
of Mozilla/Firefox, in addition to possibly violating some copyrights I
didn't read very carefully.

Also, the procedures outlined above are precisely why you shouldn't rely on
your Web page rendering the same on anyone's computer other then your own.

--
| Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com>

* Client-side Javascript and Netscape 4 DOM Reference available at:
*

http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.3/reference/frames.html

* Internet Explorer DOM Reference available at:
*

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/dhtml_reference_entry.asp

* Netscape 6/7 DOM Reference available at:
* http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/
* Tips for upgrading JavaScript for Netscape 7 / Mozilla
* http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-deve...upgrade_2.html

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Disable Vertical Scroll Bars

Grant Wagner wrote:
[color=blue]
> [...]
> And although I don't think Firefox exposes the functionality directly
> (although it may in some Extension or other), you can achieve the same
> effect in Firefox by editing <Firefox directory>/res/html.css and adding
>
> body { overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical ! important; }
>
> [...]
> By the way, I'm not recommending this, you could probably make a huge mess
> of Mozilla/Firefox, in addition to possibly violating some copyrights I
> didn't read very carefully.[/color]

That's why there is the possibility for
<profile_direct ory>/chrome/userContent.css
and the like.


PointedEars