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IE screenSize

July 9, 2011 by Webhead

Problem:

Apparently no one cares about a user’s actual screen resolution.  Usually I don’t too, but in this case I do.  In creating a home page with an image as the background and expands as the user expands their window, the overflow is hidden.  However for users with a low resolution this means that they cannot scroll to see what else is on the page.

Solution:

The workaround for this is to detect the users screen resolution and change the css overflow attribute on the html, body tags to be “auto”.  I have two monitors, one at 1600×1200 and another at 1024×768.  On firefox and chrome the height values match with the javascript property screen.height.  On IE the value is always 1200.  I’m guessing it’s because the 1600×1200 monitor is my primary monitor.

Filed Under: Coding Tagged With: css, IE crap, javascript

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