Scrolling text boxes

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Eric in New York

I am thinking about setting up a page that would contain, within a table
four scrollable text boxes. I was htinking about dividing the table into
four cells and placing scrollable text within each one of these. One choice
would be to insert flash content into each cell as I believe, flash (or
SWISH) allows for this. I was wondering if there is a way to do this within
FP2003.

Eric
 
K

Kevin Spencer

Sure Eric. It would require some hand-coding, and I wouldn't use form
elements, but divs. Example:

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 1</title>
<style>
<!--
div { width: 300px; height: 300px; background-color:
#CCFFFF;overflow:auto; }
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>

<table border="1" id="table1">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Aliquam
vitae ante sed augue lobortis suscipit. Aenean ultricies cursus
lorem. Pellentesque venenatis vehicula diam. Donec leo massa,
pulvinar consequat, ultrices eget, ullamcorper sit amet, magna.
Vivamus sollicitudin diam et enim. Sed pede nulla, adipiscing vitae,
luctus a, pretium quis, turpis. Nunc fermentum diam eget diam.
Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices
posuere cubilia Curae; Phasellus tempus. Morbi sit amet magna et est
commodo consectetuer. Cras blandit. Nulla faucibus condimentum eros.
Nullam ut ante non dui convallis porttitor. Vivamus commodo.
Praesent nonummy libero nec sapien. Nullam id nibh. Ut consequat
ligula id nunc. Integer venenatis ultrices nunc. Duis interdum justo
non metus. Aenean et felis. </p></div></td>
<td><div></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div></div></td>
<td><div></div></td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>

</html>

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
If you push something hard enough,
it will fall over.
- Fudd's First Law of Opposition
 
E

Eric in New York

The whole positioning thing has got me running in the other direction away
from divs. Seems to me a newbie ought to stick with tables if the site is
to get off the ground in any reasonable amount of time (my whole reason for
going with FP rather than GoLive which I already owned but never used).

I redesigned away from the scrolling text boxes anyway.

Eric
 
K

Kevin Spencer

You must not have read the HTML I spent so much time writing for you. There
is no positioning in it.

It is important to understand that *any* HTML element can be positioned. The
fact that FrontPage uses divs as "panels" is misleading to anyone that
doesn't know much about HTML.

Take a second look, and you might want to start studying some HTML while
you're at it. Having a good hammer and saw doesn't make one a good
carpenter!

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
If you push something hard enough,
it will fall over.
- Fudd's First Law of Opposition
 
A

Andrew Murray

You can probably do it with Inline frames - insert a frame in each cell of
the table as you've described. Inline frames are "scrollable" individually
from the main scroll bar, and basically act like traditional frames. Then
you can insert a flash file in each inline frame.
 

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