I think I've seen this mentioned here before but I can't find the thread. I have my system set at 1024 by 768. Most of the time this allows me to view the entire page without having to scroll back and forth. Lately though I've noticed that sometimes I can see the entire page, while at other times I can't. For example I might go to a forum, like Armor, and have to scroll way over to see the column where it lists who started the post and who was the last one to contribute.

I haven't seen any pattern to this, it seems like it can occur at any time, in any page.

Any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

I've noticed the same problem sometimes, anyway nothing worying or annoying...
Ciao

One thing that could be causing it is if their are large pics posted in the topic your viewing. If the pic is very wide, it increases the overall width of the page causing you to have to scroll over.

Yup. It's large images or a long unbroken string of text that can do this (like a long URL).

People can keep this from occuring if they use HTML to load up images and constrain the width (JUST THE WIDTH) by adding a width modifier...like this:

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Code:

<img src="http://www.site.com/images/myimage.jpg" width="600">

 

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Cheers,
Jim

Hi Jim

I thought images were automatically scaled to 600 wide...

When I first started (before I knew better), I posted at 640x480, but the images appeared 600 pixels wide.

All the best

Rowan

Tin Can and Jim, thanks for the input about the images. I don't really know what makes computers tick, although I sell them. I sometimes think it's just one step below magic. My friend Sigirty calls them "infernal machines." I don't think it's the images though, although that sure could be the case. I notice it most on the main list of a forum where it lists all the threads, who wrote them, and who last posted on them. There are no images involved on that page so would an image inside the thread cause this to happen?

Oh, and Scoccia, nothing to worry about but it is annoying. I'm on my wife's computer at the moment and her scoll button sucks it's so slow.

Halfyank, if you're using M$'s IE, this is a near normal "thing" with it's page-draw coding. Usually if you just hit the refresh button, it will correct itself.