Stylesheets - Scrolling text in a DIV

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Scrolling text in a DIV

bill

2007-07-21, 6:16 pm

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

2007-07-21, 6:16 pm

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:50:01 +0200, bill <nobody@spamcop.net> 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.

max-height
overflow
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Rik Wasmus

Gus Richter

2007-07-21, 6:16 pm

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/c...piral/demo.html>

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Gus

William Gill

2007-07-21, 6:16 pm

> 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....trycss_overflow

bill

2007-07-21, 6:16 pm

William Gill wrote:
>
> Take a look at the overflow property:
> http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_overflow.asp
> http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit....trycss_overflow
THank you much - all

bill