Workaround for issue with IE scrollWidth

Question

I seem to have stumbled onto a bug in IE where the scrollWidth is off by 1px compared to the offsetWidth. The trigger to this seems to be dependent on the length of the text/ch

Answer 1

Try to set the padding-right: 1px; for the class .base.

.base{
    font-size: 16px; 
    overflow: hidden;
    padding-right: 1px;    
}