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Extra border around IE7’s content

Submitted by tino on June 4, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

There is a 3px Win95-style border inside of Internet Explorer’s content area. That does make it look odd and more important prevents the scroll bar from being at the border of the screen when the window is maximized (Fitt’s Law). On the lower right corner, the windows is not resizeable on that border, so there is a small dead area.

Remove the extra border like on Windows Explorer.

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Discussion (4 comments)

echo.bounce wrote on June 4, 2008, 1:02am

This is actually determined by the border style of the BODY element of the currently loaded page. Setting style="border:none" removes the sunken border.

Notwithstanding, agree this is not a particularly useful feature esp wrt Fitt's affordances.

tino wrote on June 4, 2008, 1:30am

Are you sure? Haven't seen a page without such a border in IE7 and some other windows in Vista also have this border (some administrative tools). And why does Firefox not show this?

echo.bounce wrote on June 4, 2008, 9:29am

Yup, save

<html><body style="border:none"></body></html>

as test.html and open it in IE.

europrg_09 wrote on June 29, 2008, 10:56pm

youre right, echo, but this should be disabled by default, it is a dead space for the scrollbar

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