Scrolling text in a DIV

[bill]

Yes I have searched the group in google.
No, I did not find the answer.

I want a DIV that will contain variable amounts of text. It will
have a fixed width and I want to limit the height to the viewport
height. If there is more text than the DIV height, I want the
excess clipped and a scrollbar to appear.

I am sure that this is a relatively simple task, I just don't
know enough about CSS positioning to know where to look first.

I am not asking for code, just tell me where to start looking.

Thanks,

bill

[Rik]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:50:01 +0200, bill <no****@spamcop.netwrote:

Yes I have searched the group in google.
No, I did not find the answer.

I want a DIV that will contain variable amounts of text. It will have a
fixed width and I want to limit the height to the viewport height. If
there is more text than the DIV height, I want the excess clipped and a
scrollbar to appear.

I am sure that this is a relatively simple task, I just don't know
enough about CSS positioning to know where to look first.

I am not asking for code, just tell me where to start looking.

max-height
overflow
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Rik Wasmus

[Gus Richter]

bill wrote:

Yes I have searched the group in google.
No, I did not find the answer.

I want a DIV that will contain variable amounts of text. It will have a
fixed width and I want to limit the height to the viewport height. If
there is more text than the DIV height, I want the excess clipped and a
scrollbar to appear.

I am sure that this is a relatively simple task, I just don't know
enough about CSS positioning to know where to look first.

I am not asking for code, just tell me where to start looking.

<http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html>

--
Gus

[William Gill]

I want a DIV that will contain variable amounts of text. It will have a

fixed width and I want to limit the height to the viewport height. If
there is more text than the DIV height, I want the excess clipped and a
scrollbar to appear.

Take a look at the overflow property:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_overflow.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.a...rycss_overflow

[bill]

William Gill wrote:

>I want a DIV that will contain variable amounts of text. It will have
a fixed width and I want to limit the height to the viewport height.
If there is more text than the DIV height, I want the excess clipped
and a scrollbar to appear.

Take a look at the overflow property:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_overflow.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.a...rycss_overflow

THank you much - all

bill