Avoid 'page jump' by forcing a scroll bar

On January 31, 2009, in CSS, Web Development, by Rob

Occasionally a web page jumps horizontally because a switch of page or change of content causes a vertical scroll bar to appear.

This can be avoided with a little CSS trick;

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  html {
    overflow-y: scroll;
  }

This can be placed in the <head> element of a page that is prone to the problem, or in the header include file for a site.

The result of this is that when a vertical scroll bar is not needed on a site, its place is taken by an unobtrusive pseudo-scroll bar, greyed out like other inactive controls.

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Web Development Links

On January 26, 2009, in Uncategorized, by Rob

This is a collection of useful links for web development.  Not my content, but useful nonetheless!

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Strip the extension off of a filename in PHP

On January 17, 2009, in Operating Systems, Uncategorized, by Rob

Here's a useful function to strip the extension off of a filename.

if($ext !== false) {
$name = substr($name, 0, -strlen($ext));
}
return $name;
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