[TYPO3-dev] typo3/mod.php does NOT allow scrolling

Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >] mathias.schreiber at wmdb.de
Wed Mar 11 12:45:01 CET 2009


Franz Koch schrieb:
> Hi,
>>> Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >] wrote:
>>>> I found another minor issue.
>>>> If we set the overflow thingy to auto, modules that need more width 
>>>> than
>>>> bigDoc allows (roughly 650 pixels or something), they will trigger a
>>>> horizontal scrollbar.
>>>
>>> What about using "overflow-y: auto" instead of "overflow: auto"?
>>>
>>
>> Works weird in FF3 and IE6.
>> But this seems to do the job...
>> overflow-y: auto;
>> overflow-x: hidden;
>>
>> So...
>> Do I make a patch for this?
> 
> why prohibiting the horizontal scrollbar by default if needed by the 
> displayed content? And why the 650px limit in bigDoc (or at all)? Just 
> make it 100% and everybody is happy - it really sucks having only a 
> small workarea on large screens and have it not adjustable for smaller 
> ones. So simply use relative dimensions and not fixed px dimensions.


Good point.
So my patch would involve two things:
a) make bigDoc 100% wide
b) allow scrolling




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