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

Best reply to date (may 2012) for forcing vertical scrollbar in safari, opera & firefox is:

html {
    height: 101%; /* setting height to 101% forces scroll bar to display */
}
html { min-height: 100%; padding-bottom: 1px; }

Opera was the most difficult and would only insert the vertical scrollbar no matter the height of the page if both html tags above were used.

Thanks - Dianne