Web Design Question

[Rhombuss]

I've seen this done before, just can't recall any sites that use it.

Say for instance you have a 3x3 table. And it is in the middle cell (2,2) where you want to display data. Obviously being only 1/9th of the page, it won't show all the data at once. How do you make it so that there can be "scroll bars" extending the actual cell (while maintaining the original proportion) so that you can scroll up and down WITHIN the cell?

What type of scripting is that called? And if anyone could direct me to tutorials on how to do it, that would be great.

TIA!

 

[hoihtah]

with html,
you can do this by creating frames, not cells.

there are two places in html that allows scrolling.

frames, and forms.

of course, there are other tools that you can integrate to make this happen...
(ie. javascript)

but with html, those are your options.

 

[Turkey]

You could put a text box in that cell, then specify the proper size of the text box. It's not the greatest solution because it doesn't scale well over different resolutions and screen sizes.

 

[Buddha Bart]

<iframe> or layers.
Tablecell's themselves can't/don't scroll.

something like this

bart

 

[Rhombuss]

Thanks Buddha Bart,

I'm using the dynamic layers in Dreamweaver and they're perfect for what I'm wanting to do. Just one question though - I need the vertical scroll bar, because I'm making an up/down page type scrolling. But is there a way to get rid of that horizontal scroll bar? The text auto-wraps, and I'm not going to put pictures larger than the layer width, so they're just in the way.

Thanks again!