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  • Cat Laugel

    Text scrolling within a webpage

    Hello,
    I am redesigning my website and would like to have the text scroll within
    the webpage without the page itself scrolling.... if you understand what I
    mean... ;-)
    I want a very sleek look and would like to use little arrows that people
    could press to see more of the text rather than have a very long page....

    How should I go about that? I use DW3. Can it be done????

    Thanks for any info!! ;-)
    Cat.


  • David Dorward

    #2
    Re: Text scrolling within a webpage

    Cat Laugel wrote:
    [color=blue]
    > I am redesigning my website and would like to have the text scroll within
    > the webpage without the page itself scrolling.... if you understand what
    > I mean... ;-)[/color]

    It sounds like you want to cram lots of text in to a small area and make the
    user scroll more... instead of making use of available space.
    [color=blue]
    > I want a very sleek look and would like to use little arrows that people
    > could press to see more of the text rather than have a very long page....[/color]

    Argh! no! Please! no no no no no!



    --
    David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

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    • Matthias Gutfeldt

      #3
      Re: Text scrolling within a webpage

      Cat Laugel wrote:[color=blue]
      > Hello,
      > I am redesigning my website and would like to have the text scroll within
      > the webpage without the page itself scrolling.... if you understand what I
      > mean... ;-)
      > I want a very sleek look and would like to use little arrows that people
      > could press to see more of the text rather than have a very long page....[/color]

      I know, this used to be all the rage a couple years ago. But sooner or
      later even the die-hard DHTML freaks realized it's not such a good idea;
      your visitors have to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll
      forever just to read a couple lines of text. It might look neat, but
      it's just not practical.


      But if you insist, here's a NOT RECOMMENDED example, complete with the
      usual non-standard scrollbar CSS properties:


      <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
      <html>
      <head><title> A scrolling nightmare</title>
      <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
      <style type="text/css">
      body {background-color:black;}
      div {position:absol ute;top:20%; left:30%; height:100px; width:300px;
      overflow:auto; color:white;}

      /* some non-standard scrollbar values */
      div {
      scrollbar-3dlight-color:#eeeeee;
      scrollbar-arrow-color:black;
      scrollbar-base-color:black;
      scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#eeeeee;
      scrollbar-face-color:black;
      scrollbar-highlight-color:#eeeeee;
      scrollbar-shadow-color:black}
      </style>
      </head>
      <body>
      <div>
      <p>I hate my visitors, that's why I make them scroll and scroll and
      scroll</p>
      <p>Epsum factorial non deposit quid pro quo hic escorol. Olypian
      quarrels et gorilla congolium sic ad nauseum. Souvlaki ignitus
      carborundum e pluribus unum. Defacto lingo est igpay atinlay. Marquee
      selectus non provisio incongruous feline nolo contendre. Gratuitous
      octopus niacin, sodium glutimate. Quote meon an estimate et non
      interruptus stadium. </p>
      <p>I hate my visitors, that's why I make them scroll and scroll and
      scroll</p>
      <p>Sic tempus fugit esperanto hiccup estrogen. Glorious baklava ex
      librus hup hey ad infinitum. Non sequitur condominium facile et geranium
      incognito. Epsum factorial non deposit quid pro quo hic escorol. Marquee
      selectus non provisio incongruous feline nolo contendre Olypian quarrels
      et gorilla congolium sic ad nauseum. Souvlaki ignitus carborundum e
      pluribus unum.
      </p>
      <p>I hate my visitors, that's why I make them scroll and scroll and
      scroll</p>
      <p>
      Defacto lingo est igpay atinlay. Marquee selectus non provisio
      incongruous feline nolo contendre. Gratuitous octopus niacin, sodium
      glutimate</p>
      </div>
      </body>
      </html>


      Well, at least the HTML validates. Happy scrolling ;-)

      Matthias

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      • William Tasso

        #4
        Re: Text scrolling within a webpage

        Alan J. Flavell wrote:[color=blue]
        > On Mon, Aug 25, Matthias Gutfeldt inscribed on the eternal scroll:
        >
        > [...][color=green]
        >> <p>Sic tempus fugit esperanto hiccup estrogen. Glorious baklava ex
        >> librus hup hey ad infinitum. Non sequitur condominium facile et
        >> geranium incognito.[/color]
        > [...]
        >
        > Hey: that so-called Greeking is supposed to just fill the space - not
        > to have the readers rolling in the aisles! Where on Earth did you get
        > that wonderful drivel from???
        >
        > (I'll have a portion of the glorious baklava, please...)
        >[/color]

        yuk - way too sweet for my taste, but I have to admit to be intrigued by the
        very idea of an incognito geranium.

        --
        William Tasso - http://WilliamTasso.com


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        • Matthias Gutfeldt

          #5
          Re: Text scrolling within a webpage

          "Alan J. Flavell" schrieb:[color=blue]
          >
          > On Mon, Aug 25, Matthias Gutfeldt inscribed on the eternal scroll:
          >
          > [...][color=green]
          > > <p>Sic tempus fugit esperanto hiccup estrogen. Glorious baklava ex
          > > librus hup hey ad infinitum. Non sequitur condominium facile et geranium
          > > incognito.[/color]
          > [...]
          >
          > Hey: that so-called Greeking is supposed to just fill the space - not
          > to have the readers rolling in the aisles! Where on Earth did you get
          > that wonderful drivel from???[/color]

          I got it from webdesign-l, source was said to be unknown.

          A couple links to more Greeking:
          <http://allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Lorem_ip sum>


          Matthias

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