# Inability to Scroll Page in basic-html View

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/inability-to-scroll-page-in-basic-html-view/397861
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 7, 2026, 7:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inability-to-scroll-page-in-basic-html-view/397861 "2026-03-07T07:08:13Z")
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### Author: ![Noble\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ad7895/32.png) [@Noble\_Fish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noble_Fish)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2026, 7:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inability-to-scroll-page-in-basic-html-view/397861/1 "2026-03-07T07:08:13Z")

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Recently, I read some topics on Meta regarding browser support and learned that for unsupported older browsers, the basic-html view is used to ensure basic reading functionality. To understand what kind of reading experience visitors would get, I specifically downloaded Chrome 53.0.2785.101 (64-bit) to test it out.  
I found that neither _the mouse wheel_, the spacebar, the PGDN key, nor even selecting text and moving the cursor downward to expand the selection area could scroll the page down.  
 ![5a02kk](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/a/0/1a00c8b283bdeb138fc4836a3fbd6faf7e49cd15.gif)  
Using Ctrl+mouse wheel to zoom in confirmed that content beyond the viewport had indeed loaded correctly.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/0/9/00936cbb7bd369f2b8d6391525953394b8de3c2b.png)

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