Thickbox IE6 Issue

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Hello!

I’m developing a web app for a client and am having an issue that neither myself nor my employee can figure out.

If you visit this page (still in dev so there may be errors) http://projects.authenticstyle.co.uk/groupvalet/maincode-html/dashboard.html and click the ‘Calendar’ link in the main nav, a lightbox opens.

All is fine, until you open it with IE6.

The issue is that even though the calendar in the lightbox is bigger than the browser window, there are no scroll bars, so you can’t scroll down to view the entire calendar. In every other browser this is no problem, but my client wants IE6 supported for this app, so I really need to overcome this issue.

The lightbox I’m using is thickbox.

Any help or ideas for solutions would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Will

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The same problem happened to me once. I’ve tried a lot but could not be able to solve for IE 6, moreover, it was running properly on IE 7 and other versions.

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Thanks for your response. Good to know someone else has had the same problem.

I’m thinking about writing some conditional CSS for IE6 to set a height on the thickbox container and then force that to have scrollbars. So basically there are scrollbars inside the lightbox itself. Not ideal, but at least users will be able to access all the content.

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First I would ask why they would want IE6 supported. It is your job to explain to them the current trends. The only reason I could say supporting IE6 would be you actively get 20%+ of your views from IE6, maybe 15% if you are feeling nice. Have you tried setting a height and width then setting an overflow via CSS?