I'll try to be more clear. Bacially I have designed a template however I do not want the template to be stretched when I add the large amount of text. So I would like to have this content have its own scroll bar. Is there a method to doing this without using frames. Once this is done I would like to be able to change the look and colour of the scroll bar, I understand this can be done by using CSS?? Thanks
You need to use a bit of CSS and a <div> for this. click for an example Just enclose your content in a div tag as so: <div style="width: 200px; height: 200px; overflow:scroll"> Put your content here </div> You can change the numbers on width: and height: to the amount of pixels wide and tall you want the scrolling area to be. As for changing the color of the scrollbar, I think that is IE only, and not sure if you can do it on a div scrollbar.
Oh wow Neticule thank you very much that is exactly what I was looking for. I will try that code out when I get home, I thought it would be far more complicated What part of that involves CSS? If anyone else has an idea on how to change the scroll bar look and colour I would be very grateful. thanks again.
Everything you see in the style="" attribute is technically CSS If you have trouble getting it to fit right try: 1. use a % sign instead of px for width and height to define the dimensions as a percentage. 2. add "float: left;" or "float: right;" to the end of the style="" properties those might help get it fit to your page correctly, just fiddle with it a bit
Well I know frames should not be used from a search engines perspective, but I do not know much about iframes.
You can use textarea(read only) for that <textarea cols="10" rows"40" readonly="yes">Write whatever</textarea> Easily customizable with no CSS knowledge.