How to scroll the content of cells in a table?

[Manuel Reimer]

Hello,

I have the following problem:

I have a table on my homepage which has two cells. One cell left which
has the menu in it and one on the right where I display the content.
This table has an height of 100% and an width of 100%. As soon as the
content of one cell is too big for the table I want the browser to
show a scrollbar in this cell. I'm sure that this is possible with CSS
(overflow:auto?), but I couldn't find the solution so far.

Thank you very much in advance

Manuel

[Philipp Lenssen]

Manuel Reimer wrote:

Hello,

I have the following problem:

I have a table on my homepage which has two cells. One cell left which
has the menu in it and one on the right where I display the content.
This table has an height of 100% and an width of 100%. As soon as the
content of one cell is too big for the table I want the browser to
show a scrollbar in this cell. I'm sure that this is possible with CSS
(overflow:auto?), but I couldn't find the solution so far.

That problem is called table-layout. You might want to switch to CSS.
Instead of two cells, you'd have something like two div's with
different classes ("menu" and "content"). Yes, you can then assign
"overflow: scroll;" and "height: [something]" to the content-div. This
should also work if you put the div in the table-cell, by the way. And
don't test with NN4x!

[Manuel Reimer]

Philipp Lenssen schrieb:

That problem is called table-layout. You might want to switch to CSS.
Instead of two cells, you'd have something like two div's with
different classes ("menu" and "content"). Yes, you can then assign
"overflow: scroll;" and "height: [something]" to the content-div.
I'll try to do this. So far I couldn't find good information on how to
do this
This
should also work if you put the div in the table-cell, by the way. And
don't test with NN4x!

I think this doesn't work (I tried this several times).

CU

Manuel

[Salagir]

On 7 Nov 2003 00:18:14 -0800, in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,
Manuel Reimer wrote:

I have a table on my homepage which has two cells. One cell left which
has the menu in it and one on the right where I display the content.
This table has an height of 100% and an width of 100%. As soon as the
content of one cell is too big for the table I want the browser to
show a scrollbar in this cell. I'm sure that this is possible with CSS
(overflow:auto?), but I couldn't find the solution so far.

That sounds like the same rendering frames would do.

Why don't you use frames ?

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[Manuel Reimer]

Salagir schrieb:

That sounds like the same rendering frames would do.
Exactly. So far my page is with frames.
Why don't you use frames ?

- <http://www.jmk.su.se/global99/anna/blind/> (search for "frames" on
that page)
- Search-Engines have problems with frames
- I need two pages for each content I want to display (one frameset and
one page for the content) if I want to make it possible to the user to
bookmark each page. So I have many framesets on my webserver whith only
load a "*_framesource.html" and my "menu.html". This is really difficult
to maintain.

CU

Manuel

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Salagir wrote:

Why don't you use frames ?

Where have you been, these past few years?

Netscape stopped using frames on their own main web pages quite soon
after they'd implemented frames[1] in their browser, and that was a
very long time ago now in web terms. There has to be some kind of
message in that.

sigh.

[1] and plonked down their design as a done deal at the W3C, deaf to
all the reactions they got.

[Andreas Prilop]

Manuel Reimer <mr*****@despammed.com> wrote:

- Search-Engines have problems with frames

The different number of hits
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22This+Page+Uses+Frames%22>
<http://altavista.com/web/results?q=%22This+Page+Uses+Frames%22&kgs=0&kls=0>
is quite astonishing.

[Andreas Prilop]

I wrote:

The different number of hits
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22This+Page+Uses+Frames%22>
<http://altavista.com/web/results?q=%22This+Page+Uses+Frames%22&kgs=0&kls=0>
is quite astonishing.

No, it isn't. AltaVista's search is case-sensitive:
<http://altavista.com/web/results?q=%22this+page+uses+frames%22&kgs=0&kls=0>
Sorry.

[Manuel Reimer]

Hello,

I tried to fix this problem with an "<div>" in the cell. This works nice
as long as I set height to an pixel-value. As soon as I try to set it to
100% this stops to work. Which height-value do I have to set to get the
div to have the same height as the table?

Thanks

Manuel
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