overflow attribute in IE 5.5

[Alex Stankovic]

Hi,

Why doesn't overflow property for DIV element work in IE5.5?
I have a simple CSS class as follows:

.scrollableDiv {

overflow: auto;

}

<DIV CLASS="scrollableDiv">Large large text....</DIV>

Above doesn't work IE5.5. According to MSDN documentation it works from IE4.0 on
32bit windows platforms. I personally tested it with IE5.0 on Win NT 4
Workstation and it worked.

Now i upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional and IE 5.5 and it does not?

Anybody come accross the solution for this one?

Thanks,
Alex

[Rowland Shaw]

Wouldn't overflow: auto; do nothing??
[
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/overflo
w.asp ]

"Alex Stankovic" <astan...@programmer.net> wrote...

[Aleksandar Stankovic]

overflow: auto; would add scroll bars only if necessary (ie. if the text inside
the div is larger than the space available for the DIV).
That works fine in IE4, IE5 but it doesn't work with IE5.5. And its not just on
my machine but on all machines in our dev. team.

Thanks for your reply,
Alex

-----Original Message-----
Wouldn't overflow: auto; do nothing??
[
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/overflo
w.asp ]

"Alex Stankovic" <astan...@programmer.net> wrote...
Hi,

Why doesn't overflow property for DIV element work in IE5.5?
I have a simple CSS class as follows:

..scrollableDiv {

overflow: auto;

}

<DIV CLASS="scrollableDiv">Large large text....</DIV>

Above doesn't work IE5.5. According to MSDN documentation it works from
IE4.0 on
32bit windows platforms. I personally tested it with IE5.0 on Win NT 4
Workstation and it worked.

Now i upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional and IE 5.5 and it does not?

Anybody come accross the solution for this one?

Thanks,
Alex

.

[Jose Jeria]

You have to add a width and height to the DIV so it knows when to start
using scrollbars.
Otherwise it will just stretch the DIV, cause no width or height has been
set.

.scrollableDiv
{
overflow: auto;
width:100px;
height:50px;
}

/Jose Jeria

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