I have a block of preformatted code (<pre>) which overflows horizontally so there is an horizontal scrollbar to allow the user to view the content.
overflow: auto;
However, in IE7 (maybe other IE versions), the scrollbar overlaps the last line of my content (which is especially irritating when there is just one line of content).
I've tried the solution listed here, but it didn't work.
The only solution that works is to use
overflow: scroll;
which adds a scrollbar to all my preformatted sections which is just awful.
Note: It works fine in Firefox 3 and Google Chrome.
Update
I've found a solution (see my answer), but if someone finds a way to not have the ugly padding in every preformatted section in IE7, that would be perfect.
We call those overlay scrollbars and they are either partially or fully transparent while sitting on top of the page content. In other words, unlike classic scrollbars that take up physical real estate on the screen, overlay scrollbars sit on top of the screen content.
The easy fix is to use width: 100% instead. Percentages don't include the width of the scrollbar, so will automatically fit. If you can't do that, or you're setting the width on another element, add overflow-x: hidden or overflow: hidden to the surrounding element to prevent the scrollbar.
To hide the horizontal scrollbar and prevent horizontal scrolling, use overflow-x: hidden: HTML. CSS.
Just after posting the question I thought about checking if stackoverflow handled that (which it does).
I took a look at the stylesheet and found this:
padding-bottom: 19px!ie7;
(well, they use 20px, but 19 looked better).
It adds a bottom padding only for IE7, which makes every preformatted sections without a scrollbar look a little weird because of the huge padding, but at least I can see the content (and it does look weird on stackoverflow too).
Sorry for asking a question too quickly.
add 'padding-bottom:20px' to the pre tag
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