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The Backlash Cometh

(41,358 posts)
Thu Dec 15, 2011, 11:06 PM Dec 2011

How do you get a scroll effect without having to use a scroll box?

I know how to make a scroll box, but how do you get the effect that the bottom of the page is endless? a good example is DU, the way you can scroll down with the scroll bar on the right. Or is that the answer? Does it require web software that makes the page one big scroll box?

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How do you get a scroll effect without having to use a scroll box? (Original Post) The Backlash Cometh Dec 2011 OP
No sure what you mean by how DU is. greyl Dec 2011 #1
I'm using Web Easy Professional. The Backlash Cometh Dec 2011 #2
Ah. greyl Dec 2011 #3
As long as you keep the oven temperature below 450. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #4
But, but, what if I want to write about something else? The Backlash Cometh Dec 2011 #5
Facebook does this to some extent... ElboRuum Dec 2011 #6
Those dimensions you gave canetoad Dec 2011 #7

greyl

(22,997 posts)
1. No sure what you mean by how DU is.
Fri Dec 16, 2011, 02:08 PM
Dec 2011

The scroll bar only appears here (like most web pages) when the page content exceeds the height of the browser window, unless special rules have been applied to the overflowing page element.

Could you explain the effect you're going for a little more and say what browser you're using?

The Backlash Cometh

(41,358 posts)
2. I'm using Web Easy Professional.
Fri Dec 16, 2011, 06:10 PM
Dec 2011

It gives you the option for screen size, but there's nothing greater than 1024 x 764. Could that be a limitation of the software

greyl

(22,997 posts)
3. Ah.
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 09:02 AM
Dec 2011

I think the software is likely just confusing.
The 1024 x 764 setting might be just a view setting in the working space to give you a hint at how a page might look in a browser window of those dimensions.
If you add enough content to the page, scrollbars automatically appear when you view the "finished" page in a web browser.

Try pasting this 10 times into a page you're working on in Web Easy and see what happens when you view it in a web browser:

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ElboRuum

(4,717 posts)
6. Facebook does this to some extent...
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 12:59 PM
Dec 2011

Although there is a limit to the effect. It will likely require AJAX support and client-side JavaScript to load more content at the bottom of the page when the scroll bar reaches its limit.

canetoad

(18,123 posts)
7. Those dimensions you gave
Fri Dec 23, 2011, 01:22 PM
Dec 2011

Are screen size - to give you an indication of how much your page is viewable when it first loads.

With HTML the length of the page is theoretically unlimited. You could paste the Oxford Dictionary between the body tags and the page would just automatically resize, lengthways, to accommodate it. Obviously you would want to constrain the width as no-one like scrolling sideways. HTML in the wild runs endlessly down the left hand side of the page unless you box it up in some way.

The browser handles placement of the scroll bars when the page is longer than the browser window. If you are using CSS, make your content div length Auto - it will grow to accommodate whatever you place in it.

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