i came up with the scrollbar idea attack this t guy due to concerns which i will link to below you can see my initial vision for the toc at and mine to his it was deemed to be the best solution to the problem namely the ridiculously varying length of the main page toc i used css's overflow feature and the extra scrollbar is far from the rule it's the sad exception which i've tried and failed to get rid of i'll see if i can make a css hack though unpretty as they may be t