Adding Scroll Bar in Dreamweaver?

[eclipse525]

I am trying to add scrolling option in a webpage I'm presently working on. I would like to put in a crap load of text in a specific area of the page and I need the text to have a scroll bar to accomodate the amound of text. Is there a way to do this in Dreamweaver? I know if you build it in Flash you can do this but I need to do all in Dreamweaver. Any help or direction to any good sites that might help me out are appreciated. Thanks!

~e

[Logik]

I am trying to add scrolling option in a webpage I'm presently working on. I would like to put in a crap load of text in a specific area of the page and I need the text to have a scroll bar to accomodate the amound of text. Is there a way to do this in Dreamweaver? I know if you build it in Flash you can do this but I need to do all in Dreamweaver. Any help or direction to any good sites that might help me out are appreciated. Thanks!

~e

i haven't actually done this myself.. but you're talking about a layer or an iframe of some sort... look into both of those and you may find your answer

[zim]

You could set a div, specify the width and height in the css and then put overflow to scroll.

example:

<style type="text/css">
body {
font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
div#content {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background: #ccc;
overflow: scroll;
}
</style>
...

<div id="content">
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</div>

[eclipse525]

Thanks....i'll give it a shot.

One other thing, i'm build this site mostly in photoshop and then slicing it up and exporting it via Fireworks. I've read that I should export as CSS as oppose to HTML. Is this right and why? What's the advantage.




~e

[zim]

Thanks....i'll give it a shot.

One other thing, i'm build this site mostly in photoshop and then slicing it up and exporting it via Fireworks. I've read that I should export as CSS as oppose to HTML. Is this right and why? What's the advantage.

~e

css is a visual presentation language while html is a structural language. I have not used fireworks, so I am not aware of it's full advantages. I would guess that they are referring to the ability to have fireworks compile some of the css. css does not actually allow for browsing, just defines the appearance of the site.

Advantage:
(again, I do not use fireworks so I do not know how it would be exporting the content)

css allows for a single document of style rules to control an infinitive amount of html pages. As a site manager, this means that if there is a presentation issue or change needed to be made, it only needs to be done in the css and not the html. Any change to the css will update any page that is linked to it.