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| Pupsherl 2005-12-27, 3:22 am |
| Hey i am not exactly sure what the correct name (if it has one) but i need to
know how i can make a text box area, that when i have a lot of text, it will
allow the site visitor to scroll through to read, kinda like the box i am
typing in now, but i dont want a box the visitor types in, one that is preset
with information already put in. Please help
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| Holland87 2005-12-27, 3:22 am |
| Pupsherl wrote:
> 12/26/2005 09:16:30 PM
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> Hey i am not exactly sure what the correct name (if it has one) but i
> need to know how i can make a text box area, that when i have a lot of
> text, it will allow the site visitor to scroll through to read, kinda like
the
> box i am typing in now, but i dont want a box the visitor types in, one that
> is preset with information already put in. Please help
Hello - reference my article on this FAQ:
http://www.deceptivemagic.com/tools/scrollingtext.htm .
Also, feel free to grab the code posted in the article.
HTH, take care.
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Shane H
http://www.deceptivemagic.com
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| Pupsherl 2005-12-27, 3:22 am |
| I am sorry, but when i put that code on my page it just continues to let the text flow down, there is no scrolling
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| Holland87 2005-12-27, 3:22 am |
| Pupsherl wrote:
> I am sorry, but when i put that code on my page it just continues
> to let the text flow down, there is no scrolling
Then you're doing something wrong - here is the example page from the article:
http://www.deceptivemagic.com/tools...lingexample.htm .
On your browser click Edit > View Source/Source, highlight everything, copy
it, open up a blank .htm document, delete all the code from that document, and
paste the code from the above page in there.
You can then play around with the height and widths, etc.
HTH.
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Shane H
http://www.deceptivemagic.com
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| Pupsherl 2005-12-27, 3:22 am |
| i copied the source, and i put it on my page, once i put in my text that i
copied from my notepad into the correct spots in the html, before the < p > and
with the < p / > at the end. It makes the box really big still it is not
making it small and scrollable, also everytime i try to take the background out
( i want it to be see through) it messes up.
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| Holland87 2005-12-27, 3:22 am |
| Pupsherl wrote:
> 12/26/2005 10:01:35 PM
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> i copied the source, and i put it on my page, once i put in my text that i
> copied from my notepad into the correct spots in the html, before the < p >
> and with the < p / > at the end. It makes the box really big still it is not
making
> it small and scrollable, also everytime i try to take the background out ( i
want
> it to be see through) it messes up.
Okay - first off, the closing paragraph tag looks like this, </p>, not this, <
p />. Secondly - it seems to me that you really have no clue on tweaking HTML
and CSS code. The code I gave you has a width set of 100% - now if you think
that through, it consumes 100% of your screen, which is why it's not "small"
but it is scrollable, if you have enough text in there. I'm not going to walk
you through step-by-step adjusting the code to fit your website. Read up on
HTML and CSS. Here are some good resources:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp .
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp .
I gave you the code to start with, now you polish it to your needs.
HTH, goodnight.
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Shane H
http://www.deceptivemagic.com
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| Pupsherl 2005-12-27, 3:26 am |
| well there obviously is a transparent something sense it very much seems to me that there is no background color on my page now. Thanks very much
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| Holland87 2005-12-27, 3:30 am |
| Pupsherl wrote:
> also everytime i try to take the background out ( i want
> it to be see through) it messes up.
Oh - and PS > there is no such thing as a transparent hex background color. 8)
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Shane H
http://www.deceptivemagic.com
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| Holland87 2005-12-27, 3:30 am |
| Pupsherl wrote:
> well there obviously is a transparent something sense it very
> much seems to me that there is no background color on my
> page now. Thanks very much
No there's not - again "transparent" is not a color. Your background color is
probably white, which IS a color - and is defined as a default with the hex
value of #FFFFFF.
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Shane H
http://www.deceptivemagic.com
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| Pupsherl 2005-12-27, 3:30 am |
| my background cannot be white, if i can see the image background i have, that is behind the scrolling text
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