Scroll bars and frames

[Guest]

I have set up a website using frames and this is my question: In the content
frame--the frame that changes according to which link in the navigation you
click on--the horizontal scroll bar appears for certain documents no matter
how far from the right I set the margins on the html page in FrontPage. I
would like to get rid of that horizontal scroll bar if possible. What might
be causing it to appear?

Thanks,

Richard Newman

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Your page content is forcing the page width (and scroll bar)

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| I have set up a website using frames and this is my question: In the content
| frame--the frame that changes according to which link in the navigation you
| click on--the horizontal scroll bar appears for certain documents no matter
| how far from the right I set the margins on the html page in FrontPage. I
| would like to get rid of that horizontal scroll bar if possible. What might
| be causing it to appear?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Richard Newman

 

[Murray]

Be aware that attempting to manage scrollbars on framed pages is a bit like
tugging superman's cape *and* spitting into the wind. You will find
yourself in an ever escalating downward spiral of awkward and unpleasant
workarounds until you give up web development altogether.

You would be so much better off not using frames at all.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Stefan. This I understand. What about the page content might be doing
this? I have resized the margins and I cannot figure out what else it might
be. I copied a document from Word onto the web page and the reformatted the
text.

Thanks,

Richard

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Can you provide a URL to this page and issue?

Otherwise you need to look for content, such as a image that is wider than the IFrame or you have
table/cells that exceed the width of the IFrame, etc.

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[Guest]

Thomas--

Thanks. The site is not up yet, so I don't have a URL. But there are no
images on the page--it's all text, with footnotes, and, like I said, I have
tried bringing the margins as far away from the right edge as possible, and
as far as I can tell I have removed all the Word fields the text of which got
copied over onto the HTML page. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Richard Newman

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

I/We would have to see the page in order to provide any additional thoughts.

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