I'm using this CSS with an XML document: Review { display: block; overflow: scroll; height: 100px; width: 155px; margin-left: 115px; padding: 3px; background-color: #ddddff; } It works well (I get the scrollbar) but I get both an enabled vertical scrollbar and a disabled horizontal one. I don't think we should be showing the disabled horizontal scrollbar. Maybe a new property is required, something like: scrollbar: (horizontal|vertical|none) I dunno.

That's the view system that's giving me a disabled scrollbar

This is an open issue whether the horizontal scrollbar should be disabled in this case. If you use 'auto' instead of 'scroll' then you won't get either scrollbar displayed unless needed

is this still a problem today? is this a philosophical thing that we need to resolve or is it a bug?

On a window, if I don't need a horizontal scrollbar, I don't see one (disabled or otherwise). I shouldn't expect to see different behavior on other scrolled areas, like this DIV. If the horizontal space available can accomodate the content, I don't think we should render a scrollbar. This is the behavior on actual windows, so I think it's a bug.

ok, so is this still a problem today? if so, add a url to an example. thanks.

Use the "books" XML demo that Vidur made as the example. Is a zip file download from mozilla.org.

"overflow:scroll" gives you two scrollbars. If you don't want two of them then use 'auto' instead I agree that it would be nice if theer was a way to specify that there should always be a vertical scrollbar and no horizontal scrollbar, but that doesn' t seem to be the case with CSS Cc'ing Peter in case he can shed some light on the subject

Old bug...marking Verified/Won't Fix.

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