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BUG: Empty Vertical Scroll Bar Space On Desktop Item

Article ID: 183328

Article Last Modified on 10/2/2003

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2

This article was previously published under Q183328

SYMPTOMS

For Active Desktop items, when specifying width=100% or height=100% to size an ActiveX control, Java Applet, or picture to occupy the entire window, a vertical scroll bar or an empty region appears in the space a vertical scroll bar would occupy.

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, set the scroll attribute of the BODY tag to "no." No scroll bars will appear for the desktop item.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

The following page will reproduce this bug:

<HTML>
<BODY>
<IMG SRC="example.jpg" width="100%" height="100%">
</BODY>
</HTML>

To remove the scrollbar or vertical white space, modify the <BODY> tag as such:

<BODY scroll="no">

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

183443 PRB: Scroll Bars Appear on Active Desktop Item

Keywords: kbbug kbactivedesktop kbfaq kbpending KB183328