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From: "Heidi Utley" <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] What are the great individual genealogy websites?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:12:41 -0500
References: <4C901922.4090006@nconnect.net><9E0AFFFE934E49DBB12BAAC9A42F4DCF@Heidi><BLU0-SMTP83F423638D26C2C3965837D3790@phx.gbl><97A16E321B224E8C82F4C85655DE15F3@BERT>


Thank you Barry for your kindness and help. I have reworked the page in
question and it now displays just fine in Opera, Netscape, Firefox & Safari.
The scrollbar is now working in all browsers.

Kind regards,

Heidi Boos-Utley
E-mail:
URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heidisfamily
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Carlson" <>
To: <>; "Heidi Utley" <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] What are the great individual genealogy websites?


> Heidi,
>
> Ian Singer made some comments about Heidi's site, and the most notable was
> that on the third page the scollbar wasn't working in non Internet
> Explorer Browsers.
>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heidisfamily/myawards.htm
>
> There are a couple of things that need to be done to rectify the problem,
> and they are:-
>
> 1.. Make a small change to styles in the head, i.e..
>
> <style type="text/css">
> html, body {
> scrollbar-arrow-color: #4C3548;
> scrollbar-base-color: #4C3548;
> scrollbar-dark-shadow-color: #4C3548;
> scrollbar-track-color: #4C3548;
> }
> </style>
>
> 2.. The script in the body needs to have the 23rd line rewritten as:-
>
> window.document.body.style.overflow='auto';
>
> ... and the page will show the scrollbar as intended in all browsers,
> though with the designer colored scrollbar only showing in the IE browsers
> and the browser default scrollbar in the others.
>
> Barry
>

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