IE clipping some containers at 1500px

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Dave Anderson

Someone in our portal implementation group asked me to take a look at a
problem they have been having, and I suspect IE is the culprit.

One of the business processes is represented in the portal with a flowchart
that exceeds 1500 pixels in width, and IE always truncates the containing
DIV at *precisely* 1500 pixels. Firefox and Opera do not.

My first guess was that some CSS rule was stomping on the display. I
captured the entire page, including CSS and JS, and scoured it for: clip,
overflow, max-width, and any dimension > 1000. I found none.

My next step was to see if the truncation occurred at the same 1500px width
for different font sizes. I held down the Ctrl key and scrolled the mouse
wheel to "zoom" IE7, and the truncation disappeared. Even returning to the
original size was OK. The truncation evaporated until the next page load.

The same step (Ctrl+mouse wheel) changes the font size in IE6, and that step
happens to resolve the issue there, as well.

So I am left wondering, is this an IE bug? I can find no mention of an
IE6/IE7 clipping problem, and yet I can reproduce it at will.
 
Dave said:
Someone in our portal implementation group asked me to take a look at
a problem they have been having, and I suspect IE is the culprit.

One of the business processes is represented in the portal with a
flowchart that exceeds 1500 pixels in width, and IE always truncates
the containing DIV at *precisely* 1500 pixels. Firefox and Opera do
not.
My first guess was that some CSS rule was stomping on the display. I
captured the entire page, including CSS and JS, and scoured it for:
clip, overflow, max-width, and any dimension > 1000. I found none.

My next step was to see if the truncation occurred at the same 1500px
width for different font sizes. I held down the Ctrl key and scrolled
the mouse wheel to "zoom" IE7, and the truncation disappeared. Even
returning to the original size was OK. The truncation evaporated
until the next page load.
The same step (Ctrl+mouse wheel) changes the font size in IE6, and
that step happens to resolve the issue there, as well.

So I am left wondering, is this an IE bug? I can find no mention of an
IE6/IE7 clipping problem, and yet I can reproduce it at will.
Click to expand...

Are you talking about page width? 1500 pixels wide?
 
Poprivet said:
Are you talking about page width? 1500 pixels wide?
Click to expand...

No. I am talking about a TABLE in a page (I mistakenly said it was a DIV).
It is nested in another TABLE, which reaches 1533 pixels in width. That, in
turn, is in a FRAME of width 1578 pixels. The whole thing sits in a FRAMESET
of varying widths -- that is to say it does not seem to matter the size of
the browser portal. I am looking at one right now, and the TABLE measures
1836 pixels in Firefox.
 
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