[SWFObject] swfObject creates useless vertical scrollbar in a liquid layout

Fri Oct 13 14:57:42 PDT 2006

Don't know if anyone's run into this- maybe I'm just trying something  
unusual- but it seems I've run into a bug. For full browser flash,  
the swfObj works great, but what I'm trying to do is a liquid 2  
column layout with a fixed width HTML column and and an expandable  
Flash column, and  I'm getting a useless vertical scroll bar when it  
seems I shouldn't. Check out the evidence...

EXHIBIT A
http://spacefoundry.com/clientview/opa/noswfobj100/
This version has no swf- the red area is the <body>, the grey area is  
the HTML div, and the yellow is the div that I want to replace with  
the swf using swfObject. You can see that the styles themselves don't  
create a scrollbar.

EXHIBIT B
http://spacefoundry.com/clientview/opa/swfobj100/
Now observe the same markup with the swfObject added- a useless  
vertical scrollbar appears.

EXHIBIT C
http://spacefoundry.com/clientview/opa/swfobj99/
In an attempt to debug this, I changed the height of the yellow  
swfObject div from 100% to 99%– this removes the scrollbar in Firefox  
and Safari, but not in IE, and it has the unfortunate side effect of  
creating a space at the bottom of the page. I want the swf to extend  
to the full height of the browser window.

Thanks!
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