532337 - Some pages are partly unreadable due to width restrictions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 516259

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[John J. Barton]

For the second time today I've run into a mozilla.org page I cannot read in Firefox 3.5: 
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys

The problem is that #localnav takes up 265 px and the layout of main-content does not account for this extra space properly *and* the horizontal scroll bars have been disabled by the body rule's overflow-x: hidden. So we cannot read any content in the right hand 265px. 

I guess this is bug in the style sheet for the whole site.

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Please don't file bugs with useless summaries. If you're going to file a bug, give it an actual actionable summary.

Comment 2

[David Boswell]

This is a known issue and patches are certainly welcome.

You can scroll the page -- there's just no scrollbar to show that you can do it.

Comment 3

[John J. Barton]

Near line 45 in screen.css, remove one line:
overflow-x:hidden;

Comment 4

[David Boswell]

Will removing that just turn on the scrollbar?  The real fix is to not have the page require horizontal scrolling when there's not anything off the page.  Some of the old documentation on the site has a lot of stuff in pre tags that does go off the screen, but other pages still scroll and I don't want a scrollbar when there's nothing to see off screen.

Comment 5

[John J. Barton]

I regret reporting this problem. If it is possible to erase the report that would be great.  Sorry to bother you and Happy Holidays!