Dreamweaver Question

I would love to see your site to see exactly what you are talking about to see if there is a better way to fix this than using scrollbars as they look armature and if use incorrectly (like with frames) and can make the page inaccessible.

The best way to use scrollbars (if you must) is to use a css overflow style on the container around the content you want to scroll.

All you have to do to make a div tag scroll is give it an overflow property with a height and a width. Then the scroll bar will only appear when the browser is resized and the text exceeds the width or the height.

For example <div style="overflow:auto; height:250px; width:300px;"> would be an inline tag.

Hope that helps!

This answer was edited by mahalo 241 days ago.

Reason: aaa

Thank you for that answer. I was busy yesterday or I would have responded eariler. I think, I haven't tried it yet, you have addressed my situation.

By the way, this is the first page I'm making that I will publish.

To get an idea of what I'm referring to you can resize this page with the restore down/maximize button. When the page gets smaller you can see the scrollbars appear and the content of the page keep it's structure and the browser overflows on the content.

That's what I want to do.

My page, when I put it into a browswer doesn't do that. My page adjusts to the browser so the content is resized to the browser. I don't want that because the links that go across the top pile up on each other making it look unacceptable.

Anyway, that's what I want to do.

Again, I working with Dreamweaver.

Thanks for the response.

mike t.

What you can do is this:

Open up dreamweaver and create a new page.

Choose: Page Designs (CSS)

Then choose: Halo Left Nav

Create that page from the template.

Then preview it in a browser. Then resize the browser and you'll see the content will resize to the browser size. I want to that template's content to not resize when the browser is resized.

Thanks for the response.

mike t.

Yup that will work, just FYI - IE 6 will crash when you go to print a page from your site if you use this method, which is one reason I prefer the pure css method, but here is a hack should you see that problem. It took me weeks to figure out what was going on...

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_19111

Good luck!

One more question, if you will.

Your example:

For example <div style="overflow:auto; height:250px; width:300px;"> would be an inline tag.

How would I apply that to the Dreamweaver template I mentioned?

I want to practice with the template.

Thank you for the responses.

mike t.