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    copied!<p>I ran into the following problem:<br> how to make a general container (HTML + CSS; no javascript)<br> that is contrained vertically (it has a fixed outer height), so it may have a vertical scrollbar<br> but that can grow horizontally (as needed by the content of the container), so it never has a horizontal scrollbar </p> <p>it has to work in IE8, FF, Chrome (no IE7 or earlier)</p> <p>the solution semms to be be trivial at first<br> but I can not get rid of the horizontal scrollbar in IE8:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div style="display: table;" class="container-div-1"&gt; &lt;div style="display: table-cell;" class="container-div-2"&gt; &lt;div style="overflow-y: scroll; height: 19em;" class="container-div-3"&gt; &lt;div style="width: 30em; height: 30em; background-color: red;" class="example-content"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>in this example, we need a 19em high container, that can grow horizontally, as needed by the content (in this case, the "example-cotent" div)<br> please don't suggest to modify the "example-content" div, as it is just a sample content (any content could be there)</p> <p>this problem is the generalization of this issue: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5546454/ie8-horizontal-scrollbar-problem">IE8 horizontal scrollbar problem</a></p>
 

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