If you comb through the archives you'll see that this topic comes up once a month. It isn't really a bug and is what we consider to be the lesser of two evils. If we shrank content area when scrollbars appeared, what would shrink a child container and cause it to show scrollbars and all you'd see is a cascade of scrollbars. So we don't, and you get into this situation instead. I'll try to solve your test case this weekend.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dfalling Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: container width > parent container's width when vertical scrollbar present Exactly... When vertical scrollbars are added to a container with a percentage width, it should report the new width (without the bar) so that its children resize properly. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Josh McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not as I understand clipContent. It just turns off scroll bars, no? > > What I want (and I assume the OP is the same) is for the value returned for > "100%" to represent the "inside" width of a container, so when you scroll > vertically, that value drops by ~20 pixels, instead of automatically adding > a horizontal scroll bar if you've got anything attached to the RHS of the > container by either a right="foo" or width="100%". > > -Josh
