Bug 72540 - Web pages should have persistent scrollbars.

thetakerfan · Post by **thetakerfan** » January 27th, 2005, 4:35 pm

I know this is kind of an old issue, but has anyone come up with a way to deal with it properly?

On my page I use some JS that changes the contents of a div block, which sometimes requries a vertical scrollbar, and as a result the page constantly bops around.

mw22 · Post by **mw22** » January 28th, 2005, 2:25 am

Could show us the page?
The recent trunk builds (1.8a) support overflow-y:scroll;

thetakerfan · Post by **thetakerfan** » January 28th, 2005, 4:17 pm

I haven't DLed any trunks, so maybe it works and I just don't know it yet, but here's an example

http://www.twtf.com/wrestling/

(I know the design is sort of awkward, it's going through a code/layout overhaul at the moment)

dirtypotato · Post by **dirtypotato** » October 10th, 2005, 7:20 pm

This is an interesting thread, but I was not able to find any final conclusion other than the fact that the bug has been marked as WONTFIX.

I just encountered the problem with non-fixed scrollbars in firefox this evening, and it was pretty maddening until I figured out the problem.

If this has been marked WONTFIX, can the status be changed if say _i_ volunteered to do the work to put fixed scrollbars in the browser?

raj_bhaskar · Post by **raj_bhaskar** » October 11th, 2005, 2:01 am

You can do the work, but unless you can persuade the module owner to apply it, then it won't get distributed with default builds.