Newbie needs help with scrollbars

:confused;
Arghh... trying to get my first website up, and I've done it in a table.
However the body text in the lower cells to the right of the nav bar are
causing me grief. How do I input text into the cell without the cell
stretching? I want scrollbars so that I can anchor text to other pictures and
text in the right cell (column)-which I'd also like to scroll when needed.
Confused? (as I am)
Kind, caring souls can see the dilemma at: www.pen2paint.com
Look at the Resources or Articles page. Want to add book descriptions and
reviews in the middle cell, and anchor the titles to Pictures and Amazon links
in the right column.
Any help greatly appreciated.
I have a rudimentary HTML knowledge, and am not a total techno void, so feel
free to be nerdy.
Thanks!
DJ

http://www.pen2paint.com

How do I input text into the cell without the cell
stretching?

That's how tables work. They stretch to fit the content.

I want scrollbars so that I can anchor text to other pictures and
text in the right cell (column)-which I'd also like to scroll when needed.
Confused? (as I am)

Yes. I am confused too.

Kind, caring souls can see the dilemma at: www.pen2paint.com
Look at the Resources or Articles page. Want to add book descriptions and
reviews in the middle cell, and anchor the titles to Pictures and Amazon
links
in the right column.

Sounds like what you want is frames or an iframe. You can't 'target content'
to a specific table cell. The web is document based...each page is a
document. So the only way to target another document on the same 'page' is
to use a frameset to hold different pages at the same time. An iFrame works
the same way.

So, for your particular needs, I guess in the right-most TD you will want to
put in an iFrame. Then you will make a separate page for each individual
Resource or Article and have that then load when you click on a link in the
center column by targetting the iframe:

<a href="resource1.html" target="yourIframeName">View resource 1</a>

-Darrel

I could be wrong here but I don't think you can put scrollbars in an individual
cell. Have you got a table that has, let's say three columns and two rows, is
that what you're talking about.? You want text in one of those cells?