Force vertical scrollbar to display in IE8

Question

The vertical bar does not appear in IE8 if the page is not long enough. In FF, there is a workaround for this

html {
    overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical;
         


        

Answer 1

Another solution is to set the body height to 100% - see a before/after example at http://www.iecustomizer.com/msmvp/HTMLHeightTest.htm