FollowScroll and OverFlow issue

Poster: Young
Dated: Monday May 10 2004 - 21:49:47 BST

Hello,
I turned on FollowScroll by typing "followscroll=1", it works perfectly.
I turn on overflow by typing "overflow='scroll'", it works perfectly.

Both work perfectly if you are at the top of your page, BUT once you start scrolling down your form and the menu starts to follow you, the overflow will not work and does not add a scroll bar to your submenu.

Is there any way this can be fixed?

Poster: John
Dated: Monday May 10 2004 - 22:37:28 BST

URL please?

Poster: Young
Dated: Monday May 10 2004 - 23:07:01 BST

I'm afraid I can't give the url since it is in a secure intranet.

The situation I have stated above should be pretty easy to implement, just two properties attribute added to your menu.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Tuesday May 11 2004 - 0:44:18 BST

Which operating system and browser is doing this? I just tested it on IE5.5, Netscape6.05, Netscape 7.1, Opera 7.1, Firebird [fox].07. Both codes worked. The only browser that didn't was Opera 6.05 which has many problem with many things.

You wrote "followscroll=1", "overflow='scroll'" If it is that way you did code it, the correct coding is followscroll=1; overflow="scroll";

Ruth

Poster: John
Dated: Tuesday May 11 2004 - 3:17:03 BST

[quote="Young"]The situation I have stated above should be pretty easy to implement, just two properties attribute added to your menu.[/quote]
From Ruth's correct observations you can see why things are not so easy when we can't see what's actually been coded. Simple errors, such as she pointed out, can be caused by either a typing mistake here, or actually in the coding itself. Either way, we can go down the path and waste a lot of time on both sides.

If what she suggested doesn't work, try posting your code here, especially the _data file and the JS calls to the menu code. Be sure to use the [code][/code] tags.

Poster: Young
Dated: Tuesday May 11 2004 - 21:32:03 BST

The operating system is Windows 2k and the browser is MSIE 5.5 and NS 7.1

With further investigation, I have concluded a lot of factors affect whether both will work at the same time. With what I have experimented with, both will work or not work depending on how many elements you have in the sub menus, How long your page is, and where you are in the scrolling of the page itself.

I am sorry that I can not go into futher detail by giving a page example, but I have concluded that both functionailty are not stable enough to work with both on, so I will have to settle for one or the other.

I hope in the future somebody with a public site runs into this problem and this bug can be fixed(if you even consider it a bug)