Customising layer scroll bars

Hi

I am adding a vertical overflow scroll bar to a layer. I wonder if it is possible to customise the appearance of a scroll bar? If so, how might I go about it? I also seem to get a disabled horizontal scroll bar, is there anyway to get rid of this?

Many thanks.

KJo:

Layers don't take kindly to scroll bars, and using them will cause you to
give up a large chunk of browser support.

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"KJo" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hi

I am adding a vertical overflow scroll bar to a layer. I wonder if it is
possible to customise the appearance of a scroll bar? If so, how might I go

about it? I also seem to get a disabled horizontal scroll bar, is there
anyway to get rid of this?

Many thanks.

Adding scrollbars to layers is not supported by many browsers. Using a DHTML scroller is a better idea for things like this.

Check out Scroller Genie (a commercial DHTML scroller) at http://www.dmxzone.com/showDetail.asp?NewsId=4952
Among other things, it allows you to choose from 14 predefined scroller designs, but you can easily use your own custom scroll control graphics as well.

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Murray: Which browsers do/don't support layer scroll bars? Is there a better way of having a large volume of text contained in a small area controlled by scroll bars? I prefer not to use frames.

Marja: I'm new to dreamweaver and dhtml. Why would a commercial dhtml scroller be more likely to be supported by browsers?

Thanks to you both for your help so far.

KJo:

Netscape4x will not put scrollbars in layers, and the Mac seems reluctant to
do it properly, as I recall. Anyhow, scrolling content is usually overused
anyhow since it prints poorly and is often a chest-thump rather than a
really useful page element (in my opinion).

A dHTML scroller will work because it depends only on javascripting to move
layers, i.e., there is no 'scrolling' at all. What is happening is that a
layer under another layer is being moved below the upper layer's clip
region. Content in the layer below that falls outside of the clip area is
hidden as a result, and the appearance is as if the content was 'scrolling'.

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"KJo" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Murray: Which browsers do/don't support layer scroll bars? Is there a
better way of having a large volume of text contained in a small area

controlled by scroll bars? I prefer not to use frames.

Marja: I'm new to dreamweaver and dhtml. Why would a commercial dhtml
scroller be more likely to be supported by browsers?

Thanks to you both for your help so far.

"KJo" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Murray: Which browsers do/don't support layer scroll bars? Is there a
better way of having a large volume of text contained in a small area

controlled by scroll bars? I prefer not to use frames.

Marja: I'm new to dreamweaver and dhtml. Why would a commercial dhtml
scroller be more likely to be supported by browsers?

Thanks to you both for your help so far.

While only version 5 and higher browsers support scrollbars in "Layers", you
can still create them. What will happen is that browsers that support the
technique will display scollbars, browsers that don't will display the
entire content without scrollbars. The only browser of any measurable
distribution that would not display the scrollbars would be Netscape 4...
but all the content will be displayed.

To try it, you can set up a DIV. The DIV can be anywhere on your page...
even inside a table cell. Here is an example in a table cell

<td <div id="scrolldiv1">
All content in this area will scroll if it needs to. Add more content here
to test it.
</div></td>

Then this style governs it:

#scrolldiv1 {
padding: 12px;
height: 250px;
overflow: auto;
}


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