artibatirae Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Ok, as of yet I've found no solution to this problem, or rather, this annoyance. It does pose a problem from a usability standpoint however, so if someone has a solution, feel free to share. Thing is, since the days of IE3, at least, IE has had an annoying, two pixel wide border around the browser. I'm kind of amazed that it's still around even in IE7. Not only is it ugly, but as I said, it also hinders the "Fitts' Law" effect. Reproducing the problem is simple. Maximize the browser window, and move the cursor all the way to the right. You won't be able to use the scroll bar, something that's possible in pretty much all other XP programs. If anyone knows a way to remove this border, please tell me. Knowing Microsoft, there's no way to remove/reduce the border to 0 pixels through the registry or anything like that, but one can hope... right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3nuo Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 wow i never noticed that before.. i could see that being quite annoying if you are used to the scroll bar over a scroll mouse.. glad i use firefox (not to say i dislike IE tho, i just prefer ffox personally) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artibatirae Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 Not to mention that the border looks bloody stupid on Vista. And, yeah, I prefer Firefox too, although I do use IE on occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Yea I noticed that before, it's quite annoying but I'm use to it over the years. Wonder why they never fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3nuo Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 that could be the cause of all the crappy 1px issues we webcoderz run into when coding for IE.. lol, i'm not serious! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas-c Veteran Posted December 18, 2006 Veteran Share Posted December 18, 2006 when i first got the final release of IE 7 i was starting to lean that way, but i havnt used it since 3 - 4 weeks ago now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em_te Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 The border belongs to the BODY+HTML element of the website that is currently being viewed. You can remove it by overriding the default CSS of the website by using the "User style sheet" option. Here's how: Create a text file with the following contents and give it a ".css" extension: html, body {border:0 !important} In IE, go into Tools -> Internet Options ->General -> Accessibility -> User style sheet then check the checkbox for "Format documents using my style sheet" and select the css file you created earlier. Restart IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artibatirae Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 Duuuuude! That worked! (^o^) At first I thought something had gone wrong, since I tried it out on MSN.com, but once I navigated away from that site, it started working! Much thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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