"Roland" <roland@phony.biz> wrote in message
news:42f5d600$0$11063$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...[color=blue]
> On 7-8-2005 5:40, ergobob wrote:[color=green]
>> "Roland" <roland@phony.biz> wrote in message
>> news:42f4c6ed$0$11070$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>>[color=darkred]
>>>On 6-8-2005 2:57, ergobob wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Jedi Fans" <"news[at]jedifans[-=dot=-]com"> wrote in message
>>>>news:42f3f882$0$18647$14726298@news.sunsite.dk ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>ergobob wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have two scroll boxes on the same page. The first scroll box is good
>>>>>>in IE but the words will not wrap correctly in Firefox. The second
>>>>>>scroll box is good in all browsers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You can see this on a test page at
>>>>>>
http://www.usernomics.com/ergonomic-...essories5.html .
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Can anyone see why the words will not wrap correctly in the first
>>>>>>scroll box in Firefox?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks a lot,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Bob
>>>>>
>>>>>works fine here, but correct errors before even thinking about posting
>>>>>here:
>>>>><http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.usernomics.com/ergonomic-products-accessories5.html>
>>>>><http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A//www.usernomics.com/ergonomic-products-accessories5.html>
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>Hope This Helped and MTFBWY...
>>>>>Kieren aka JediFans - <URL:http://jedifans.com/>
>>>>>The Force Is With Me, SuSE Linux Professional 9.3, Mozilla Firefox
>>>>>1.0.6, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Alpha 2 and Revenge Of The Sith!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I'm leaving the validation until later. I struggled with it for so long,
>>>>I gave up because it was beyond my level of knowledge.
>>>>
>>>>The scroll boxes should just have a vertical scroll bar - no horizontal.
>>>>
>>>>My Firefox shows the top scroll box as having a horizontal scroll bar.
>>>>And it seems that words are not wrapping.
>>>>
>>>>Is this not what you see in Firefox?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Bob
>>>
>>>Firefox (probably any other Gecko based browser) doesn't break words at
>>>hyphens ('-'). AFAIK you can't control this behavior in HTML/CSS.[/color]
>>
>>
>> What's odd about this is that I have two identical scroll boxes with
>> different information in each. The top one will not word wrap but the
>> second one does. So one has a horizontal scroll bar and the other
>> doesn't.
>>
>> Does that make any sense?
>>
>> Bob[/color]
> Yes, it does. In both boxes lines *are* wrapped (otherwise each link would
> have shown up at a single wide line). A space is the obvious place where a
> line can be wrapped. IE also wraps after a hyphen but Firefox (and any
> other Gecko based browser) does not. My guess is that the line containing
> "[something]-centered" causes the horizontal scrollbar to appear.[/color]
Thanks Roland,
I think you are right. Now that additional posts have gone into the scroll
box, the horizontal line went away. There must have been a hyphen in one of
the headlines in the box.
Bob
