[thelist] scrolling part of a page
Dave Merrill
dmerrill at usa.net
Wed Mar 2 12:04:52 CST 2005
Well, duh on me. Too obvious...
Thanks,
Dave Merrill
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:23:55 -0500, Dave Merrill wrote:
> > Is there any cross-browser way, other than frames or iframes,
> to make part
> > of the page scroll vertically only, with no horizontal scrollbar?
>
> If you set overflow: auto for an element it will only scroll in the
> direction which it overflows. So unless you put an element inside the
> scrolling parent which has a width wider than the parent it won't
> scroll horizontally. It also won't scroll vertically until there's
> more vertical content than it can contain.
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