Please help me create a scrolling text box

#1

I wanted to include a text box (not for input, but with text that the
reader has to scroll down to read all of it) in my webpage and am
running into a problem. I know how to create a basic text box with
scroll buttons, but it want's to pull the text from another page. Is
there a way to create one of these but have the actual text residing
in the code of the same page that is being displayed?
I'm using Frontpage 2003 (if that helps) and no amount of google
searching has answered this for me. I'm not trying to add any fancy
stuff to the page, I'm not an advanced HTML coder or anything, so as
simple an answer as you can offer would be great.

thanks ahead for any help

Big

#2

Once upon a time *Big McLargehuge* wrote:

Quote:

I wanted to include a text box (not for input, but with text that the
reader has to scroll down to read all of it) in my webpage and am
running into a problem. I know how to create a basic text box with
scroll buttons, but it want's to pull the text from another page. Is
there a way to create one of these but have the actual text residing
in the code of the same page that is being displayed?
I'm using Frontpage 2003 (if that helps) and no amount of google
searching has answered this for me. I'm not trying to add any fancy
stuff to the page, I'm not an advanced HTML coder or anything, so as
simple an answer as you can offer would be great.

thanks ahead for any help

Google for "overflow: auto;" and see if it's what you can use. It's
CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) and you may need to add it to the page
with something else (like Notepad) than Frontpage to make it work.

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#3

Big McLargehuge <Big (AT) emailplaceholder (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

I wanted to include a text box (not for input, but with text that the
reader has to scroll down to read all of it) in my webpage

Stop wanting that, they are a usability nightmare. Scrolling these boxes
with the mouse is poorly supported, keyboard users often cannot scroll
them at all.

If there is to much content to insert it on a page, insert only a bit of
it with a [more] link beneath it that links to the full text.

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Spartanicus

#4

Spartanicus <invalid (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid> said:

Quote:

I wanted to include a text box (not for input, but with text
that the reader has to scroll down to read all of it) in my
webpage
Stop wanting that, they are a usability nightmare. Scrolling
these boxes with the mouse is poorly supported...

How can you claim that mouse control for a scrolling text box is
poorly supported in graphical browsers? I might buy the keyboard
argument, but not the mouse one.

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#5

Travis Newbury wrote:

Quote:

Spartanicus <invalid (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid> said:
I wanted to include a text box (not for input, but with text
that the reader has to scroll down to read all of it) in my
webpage
Stop wanting that, they are a usability nightmare. Scrolling
these boxes with the mouse is poorly supported...

How can you claim that mouse control for a scrolling text box is
poorly supported in graphical browsers? I might buy the keyboard
argument, but not the mouse one.

Scrolling divs don't respond to the scroll wheel on the mouse in Gecko
browsers afair.

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#6

Els <els.aNOSPAM (AT) tiscali (DOT) nl> said:

Quote:

Stop wanting that, they are a usability nightmare. Scrolling
these boxes with the mouse is poorly supported...
How can you claim that mouse control for a scrolling text box
is poorly supported in graphical browsers? I might buy the
keyboard argument, but not the mouse one.
Scrolling divs don't respond to the scroll wheel on the mouse in
Gecko browsers afair.

We obviously have a different view on what poorly supported means.

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-=tn=-

#7

Big*McLargehuge wrote:

"I know how to create a basic text box with scroll buttons, but it
want's to pull the text from another page."

I don't understand what's happening there. For some reason it doesn't
make sense.

Would a textarea help ?

http://www.xlectric.com/temp/tatest.html

Later, Art.

#8

<textarea> is a text box. it does not extract from another page

#9

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 06:03:30 +1000,
brucie <shit (AT) usenetshit (DOT) info> wrote
in Msg. <1ei12dtzjjn9n$.dlg (AT) usenetshit (DOT) info>

Quote:

the simplest way would be an <iframe> within a scrolling <div

What's a scrolling <div>? I've had the same problem (wanting a
scrollable box inside a page) and all I caould find was <iframe>,
forcing me to split my page into two parts (the "container" part and the
included bit). A "scrolling <div>" would have been the exact thing I
needed.

robert