scroll bars

[Ron Croonenberg]

Hello,

I have a script that basically creates output in a frame in a browser.

However when the page gets longer I want to scroll them.

Of course I can add scroll bars to the frame and scroll that way, but I
want the "browser" to have the scrollbars if a page gets too long (or
too wide).

How in javascript can I "switch on" the "browsers scrollbars" ?

thanks,

Ron

 

[Ron Croonenberg]

Hi Randy,

Yes I am using a bunch of css to begin with already.

I noticed that when you create a frame with "srolling=auto" that it
works better. I was just wondering if one can have some control over it.

thanks for your reply

Ron

 

[Will]

Hello,

I have a script that basically creates output in a frame in a browser.

However when the page gets longer I want to scroll them.

Of course I can add scroll bars to the frame and scroll that way, but I
want the "browser" to have the scrollbars if a page gets too long (or
too wide).

How in javascript can I "switch on" the "browsers scrollbars" ?

Don't use JS to do it, use CSS to do it.

overflow: auto;

If the frame needs a scrollbar, it gets added. If it doesn't, then it
doesn't.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I also try to put my CSS in an external file so I can
make updates on one location.

Will

 

[Ron Croonenberg]

Is there a difference between explorer and mozilla with the frame
scrollbars ?

The 'overflow: auto;' seems to work just fine in firefox but not in ms
explorer ?

What happens is that when I set overflow/scrolling before I update the
frame it updates in a somewhat 'chunky' non-smooth way. if I set
scrolling to "auto" after the frame is updated it looks a lot better. In
mozilla firefox the frame scroll bars show up when I do a:

var frameObj = parent.document.getElementById(framenumber);
..
...updating frame here..
..
frameObj.style.overflow = 'auto';

So how do I do the same thing in explorer (and possibly other browsers)
as I do in mozilla ?

thanks,

Ron

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Ron Croonenberg said the following on 11/20/2007 11:18 PM:

Don't use JS to do it, use CSS to do it.

overflow: auto;

If the frame needs a scrollbar, it gets added. If it doesn't, then it
doesn't.

The `overflow' CSS property is not supposed to apply to those elements
unless they have fixed width or height.


PointedEars

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Yes I am using a bunch of css to begin with already.

I noticed that when you create a frame with "srolling=auto" that it
works better. I was just wondering if one can have some control over it.

You should be able to perform write access to the `scrolling' property of
the corresponding frame object:

parent.frames["..."].scrolling = "...";

However, IE (7) does not seem to like that either, and frankly I don't see
the purpose in this. Either there is enough content in the frame to allow
scrolling or there is not.

thanks for your reply

You're welcome. Thanks in advance for proper quoting next time.


PointedEars