Left-Right Scroll Bar

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 21 Jun 2001 11:10 am

I asked Janice about this a few days ago in Music and then it went away. Now I'm seeing it in other sectors as well, Computers included.

There is a Left to Right Scroll Bar at the bottom of some pages and the page is really wide when this occurs. You scroll right to read the line and then back left to get the next line or I guess you could read half lines, first one side and then the other and
put them back togeather in your head but I thought that's what the computer was supposed to do.....

Is it something I'm doing or perhaps in my computer itself; Compaq 6 mos old w/Windows ME ? Thanks in advance, Paul

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 21 Jun 2001 3:06 pm

Paul, The extra wide pages are usually due to someone posting a large picture. If the picture was smaller (I don't remember the technical dimensions) it would not cause the thread to expand.

It's nothing in your PC that is causing it.

Rich Paton · Post by **Rich Paton** » 21 Jun 2001 4:19 pm

If you are using large fonts to view content with your browser (as with the Netscape "View/Increase Font, Decrease Font feature"), this can cause such a scrollbar "awkwardness".
I've occaisionally seen these problems, due to an oddball setting of a "Wordwrap" default or preference in the user's browser. Rare, but can occur, depending on interreactions with some websites' software.
Websites with screen area settings other than the Internet more-or-less standard of 600 X 800 pixels will do it!
In addition to large images, I think that long HTML addresses and/or titles included in the messages (and some related fields) can also cause this.
I hope this helps somehow!

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 22 Jun 2001 1:03 pm

Jack and Rich: Thanks to both of you for the replies. I'm checking these areas and will let you know if I find anything significant. Regards, Paul

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 22 Jun 2001 7:10 pm

Often people will paste a long URL (web page address) into their message without using the UBB Code "click here" syntax. Most browsers will not break a line in the middle of a "word", so they add the horizontal scrollbars instead.

Wide steel tab is another thing that causes horizontal scrollbars. Sometimes it's really hard to fix.

Usually whenever Jack, Lori or I come across a topic that has the problem, we fix it if we can.

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Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 23 Jun 2001 9:53 am

bOb;

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 24 Jun 2001 6:28 pm

I brought this same topic up a few weeks ago.

It is without a doubt the most perplexing thing on this forum. To have to scroll horizonatally back and forth is very difficult to read. I just won't read any more of a given thread when it happens.

Simply takes too much effort to have to scroll between every single line in an entire thread.

What is particularly frustrating is to create a thread that has NO need for charts and have all the posts be contained within the borders, then have someone way on down the list post a chart and bam, every post then becomes too wide and the only way to read the lines is to use those dang scroll bars.

Surely there must be away to stop this. I would ever be content for the manangers to delete a post when this happens. I feel it is very unfair for this to happen and EVERYONE be affected because of one post.

The second thing that is very annoying is for a post to begin with a specific topic and then degenerate into a topic that has absolutey NOHTING to do with the what the thread was created for. And then several start kibitzing back and forth and in my opinion ruining what the threads theme was.

Am I the only one that finds these two things annoying?

carl

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 24 Jun 2001 7:13 pm

Umm Carl, didn't you just change the topic?

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 25 Jun 2001 7:54 am

Jim Smith

My mama once said, "Son, when you are caught with yer britches down, ther is NO place to hide!"

You jes proved that beyond any doubt

Thanks, and God bless you,

carl

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 25 Jun 2001 8:49 am

At this rate we'll be moving over to HUMOR !!

Regards, Paul

[This message was edited by Paul Graupp on 25 June 2001 at 08:42 PM.]

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 26 Jun 2001 8:24 am

Carl, feel free to send me an email when you spot a too-wide post. I can't read everything, you know.

Jonathan Cullifer · Post by **Jonathan Cullifer** » 28 Jun 2001 10:03 am

Browsers never wrap tables or images with a fixed length or width. They also never wrap any text inside an HTML <pre> tag.

Many people develop pages for 800x600 screens and higher. It can really be a pain if you have a 640x480 screen!

Jonathan

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