Force vert scroll bar & good design reference

OK, yes I'm a self-taught nube with LiveCycle. After numerous tutorials and lots of reading, I know I need to code to force vertical scroll bars to appear as default on a multi-line text field. I'm a designer - not a coder- and I have yet to find an example to plagiarize work off of. Can somebody please show me how?
Also, I started by scanning a form and letting LC design a form from that. As I explore the hierarchy, I cannot decipher the magical, mystical logic as to how text and text fields are distributed amongst cells, paragraphs, and rows; why some tables get a header row and others have the header shoved into a body row; and so on. To further my education, can somebody also point me to a good treatise (preferable on-line) for basic best-practices for design within LiveCycle?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi,
I have a bunch of empty pages that can be gotten to from here:
http://www.medxmedia.com/REMsCentral/about_us.php
The second tab has some content and with the exception of the about us tab each page will likely have enough content to cause the verticle scroll bar to appear. But what can you do on the page that doesn't have enough content so that the navigation menu doesn't appear to jump to the right 16 px or whatever the width of the scrollbar is?
I've found several methods online for forcing scrollbars, but none of them seem to work or I'm not adding them correctly to the CSS.
I'd appreciate your advice.
Best regards,
Chris McLaughlin
Here's the css:
@charset "utf-8";
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html, body, ul, ol, li, p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, form, fieldset {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
#flashMenu{
background-color:#FFFFFF;
width:925px;
height:220px;
margin:0px auto;
overflow:hidden;
#wrapper {
background:url(../images/medsBG.gif) repeat;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:14px;
text-align: left;
line-height: normal;
color: #000000;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px;
border:0;
height:100%;
width: 925px;
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display:block;
width: 284px;
height: 46px;
padding: 12px;
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display:block;
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padding: 12px;
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You have two options, add either one to your sitewide CSS.
1) Force a vertical scrollbar to appear on all pages:
html {height: 102%; margin-bottom 2px}
2) Force a vertical channel to appear on short pages:
html {overflow-y: scroll}
Nancy O.
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Force vertical scroll bar

Hi all,
I would like to force a vertical scroll bar on all of my pages to keep the page from appearing to shift on some pages (pages long enough for scoll bars vs pages not long enough to need scroll bar). On my site I notice it in IE8 and FF3.
I know this has been discussed before but I am not able to find it.
Here is my code currently in my style.css concerning HTML and body elements
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
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height: 100%;
body {
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margin: 0 0 0 0; /* Sets the margin properties for an element using shorthand notation (top, right, bottom, left) */
padding: 0 0 0 0; /* Sets the padding properties for an element using shorthand notation (top, right, bottom, left) */
text-align: center; /* Centers the page content container in IE 5 browsers. */
background: #2D4262;
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Thanks
Chris

Thanks for responding,
I tried both ways..I do not know CSS very well so I probably did it incorrectly.. Heres what happens when I tried both ways.
My background goes away if I add Michaels suggestion:
To see if I did it correctly here is what I had
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
margin: 0;
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border: 0;
outline: 0;
html {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
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margin-bottom:.01px;
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And if I tried to add Murrays suggestion, nothing happened
To see if I did it correctly, here is what I had
html, :root { overflow-y:scroll; }
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
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Thanks
Chris

Scroll bar, as designed, creates an undesired response lag.

Observation I'm unsure if accurate, but I've experienced firsthand:
**It appears that the slider component of the scroll bar does not create/send "OnDrag" info until the cursor passes the midpoint of the slider. Thus, if I'm interested in scrolling down, for example, and I attempt to drag the control down, it won't respond until I'm half way down the component.**
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In other tests I've done, I haven't seen the delay. For example, on a page that does not require a lot of scrolling, the slider is larger, and it seems responsive from the initial click point --- not just after the 50% point is hit. Because my tests are not displaying the same behavior, I may be off base... However...
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I'm building a site for my girlfriends illustration and some
pages have more content than others and on these pages a scroll bar
appears which pushes the content to the left which then makes going
back to a page without a scroll give the site an inconsistent look.
i'd like to know if there was a way to fix this. I don't want
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simple explanation would be good

it isn't up yet but here is the code of one of the pages.
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http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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