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Technical Help & Discussion => Website Design & Programming => Topic started by: Hiatus on April 22, 2006, 21:50

Title: iframe
Post by: Hiatus on April 22, 2006, 21:50

I'm trying to find a way of making an iframe-like text area without actually using an iframe. I can't use an iframe because I'm not actually referencing a webpage, I just need a text area that can have scrollbars and can still render html. I don't know if that makes any sense. I might be able to explain it better later, right now my mind is all over the place... anyways, any help is appreciated... thanks

Title: iframe
Post by: sam on April 22, 2006, 21:55

couldn't you just use a normal frame??

Title: iframe
Post by: Hiatus on April 22, 2006, 21:56

Ok, nevermind... I can't believe how simple that was. I just found a site that said to add "overflow: auto;" to the div tag style, which worked perfectly... I didn't know a div could do that... :shock:

Title: iframe
Post by: Hiatus on April 22, 2006, 21:58

Quote from: "sam"

couldn't you just use a normal frame??

I was reading up on frames, but I wasn't sure if I could add a scrollbar to them. I don't know... never used frames before and not about to start, lol... thanks tho.

Title: iframe
Post by: sam on April 22, 2006, 22:01

I don't use them, but this is the whole point of them... and where I iframes came from. Personally I would avoid using both since having a scrollable area within a webpage is always messy. I can't offer you an other suggests really to do this and I'm not sure if there is another way, I bet there is though just something I personally have never looked at or dreamed of doing... well apart from in menu boxes and text areas.

Title: iframe
Post by: sam on April 22, 2006, 22:02

oh ok, I did a quick search and came up with your solution... cool. And nor did I!