Center of page moves when page changes

**mandysutton** · 01-28-2010, 07:08 AM

Hi Guys

Forgive me if this has been answered before - I can't find a reference to it - perhaps I'm using the wrong words.

When one of my pages exceeds a certain length, the centre seems to shift. This doesn't happen in IE but seemingly all the other browsers.

I thought it was because I'm using tables, but the header is in a div so I'm not so sure.

My draft site is at www.steamchicken.co.uk/76/index.html and the "how to find us" page is the offending one.

Thanks in advance.

M

**Fang** · 01-28-2010, 08:15 AM

Add a valid DTD

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

and

Code:

html {overflow-y:scroll;}

This will force a scrollbar on the index page.

**mandysutton** · 01-28-2010, 08:35 AM

Thanks for the suggestion but no joy.

It's still moving! My editor overwrites the Doctype line but I've edited that in notepad and uploaded.

I put the overflow force in my stylesheet (hope that was the intention).

I'm using Opera to test this. Any other ideas?

**Fang** · 01-28-2010, 09:04 AM

You haven't added

Code:

html {overflow-y:scroll;}

**mandysutton** · 01-28-2010, 09:13 AM

Sorry - thought it should be in the style sheet.

Where should it go - sorry to be thick.

**Fang** · 01-28-2010, 09:23 AM

It's correct, only the rule just before it has incorrect brackets

Code:

div.menu ( 
	position:absolute;
top:0; 
left:0;

)

**mandysutton** · 01-28-2010, 10:36 AM

I suppose you already know you are a genius!

Thank you for your time and trouble.

I didn't even need that bit of code.

I'm starting to think I need to let my tables go and move to divs - do you know a good tutorial - or should I make a new post for this?

Thanks again - really appreciate it.

**Fang** · 01-28-2010, 12:55 PM

A new post.

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