Re: Automatic Scroll Bar in left frame - how?

The reason for using or not using frames should be based on a) your site's
needs, and b) your willingness to accept the potential problems that frames
can create for you as developer and maintainer of the site and for your
visitors as casual users of the site.

I am down on frames because I believe that they create many more problems
than they solve.
Judging from the posts here, and the kinds of problems that are described,
the kind of person most likely to elect to use frames is also the kind of
person most likely ill-prepared fo solve the ensuing problems when they
arise. If you feel a) that you understand the problems and b) that you are
prepared to handle them when they occur, and c) that you have a need to use
frames, then by all means use them.

As far as I know, the most comprehensive discussions of frames and their
potential problems can be found on these two links -

http://apptools.com/rants/framesevil.php
http://www.tjkdesign.com/resources/frames/

Before proceding with a solution to your problem, you need to decide in your
own mind how committed you are to this layout methodology. The only way to
do that is to understand more about frames.

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"Benjohnson20" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hello... I've just created my first website with frames and I have one
problem
I can't solve - hopefully simple for some of you.. Anyway, basically, on
the
left hand side of the page you have the one frame which consists of a
number of
links to the rest of the sight - on the right hand side you have the area
in
which these links appear - so the menu on the left remains constant, it is
the
page to the right of it which changes. However, the problem I have is that
although the scroll bar appears automatically on the right hand side for
each
page, no scroll bar appears for the menu frame on the left - hope this
makes
sense. I only realised this when I looked at the sight on another pc and
realised half the menu options had been truncated and there was no scroll
bar
to look down at the rest of the options - obviously on my pc it was set up
to
fit nicely on the one page.

Appreciate any advice - thanks!

The URL for the sight is www.photorepair.net if you want to see what I
mean... part of a degree course.