Making a scrollbox

[sausage boy]

Hey everyone

Just a general question for anyone in the know.

I'm helping a mate set up a site, and we want to put a section that can have scrolling text in it. Anyone know how to set up a scrolling text boxy thing? Were using Dreamweaver, if that helps in any way at all.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled topic.

[john m]

If you mean something like on my site, it's called an iFrame. Pretty easy to set up. The code on my site is:

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<iframe name="cwindow" style="border:0px solid blue" width="100%" height=412 src="main.html"></iframe>

Throw the iframe tag in whatever table cell you want, then tailor the code attributes to your site's specifics.

[sausage boy]

rock!

I'll give that a go.

[fluffy]

Another way to do it which is more accessible to older browsers and the visually-impaired and so on, and which doesn't require an external page dependency:

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<div style="overflow:auto; width: 640px; height: 480px;">stuff goes in here </div>

The 'overflow:auto' CSS attribute just means 'if the content is too big to fit in this container, put a scrollbar on the parent.' Older browsers will just size the container to fit the content. Really old browsers will just display the content inline.

[sausage boy]

Thanks Fluffy.