[thelist] scrolling part of a page

[Scott Wehrenberg]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:23:55 -0500, Dave Merrill <dmerrill at usa.net> 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.