585676 - left side of content ends up outside of viewport on zoom

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 6976

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

For whatever reason when zooming on StephenFry.com the left edge of content ends up outside the Firefox viewport when zoomed in, and the scrollbar doesn't extend such that I am able to scroll left.  Other sites behave normally, with the left hand content always staying in frame.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This happens because the site uses a stupid way of "centering" the content which is just broken at narrow window widths.  It puts it all in a div with these styles:

  width: 960px;
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  margin-left-value: -480px;

Any time the window width is less than 960px (and zooming changes the size of a "px" in this context), the content will stick out the left side of the window.

The lack of ability to scroll to content overflowing to the left is bug 6976.