How to Put Scrolling HTML Content Inside a FrontPage Table Cell?

[Mardon]

I have a webpage made from a relatively complex table and I want to put a
large amount of text (with HTML markup) inside one of the cells of the
table. If I simply try to add as much text as I need to add, the cell
expands and everything in the table becomes misaligned. When viewed in a
browser, I want the cell to display something like a <TEXTAREA></TEXTAREA>
tag would behave but I want marked-up text inside the box/pane, not plain
text. I've been trying to research how to do this and understand that Java,
VB, etc. can do it but I'm not a programmer. I'm lost at how to get this
done. Can anyone point me to some step-by-step advice that will allow me to
create this scrolling panel for HTML content inside of a cell within my
table? Thanks, Mardon

 

[Don]

http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/resources/codesamples.htm#News

Don
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|I have a webpage made from a relatively complex table and I want to put a
| large amount of text (with HTML markup) inside one of the cells of the
| table. If I simply try to add as much text as I need to add, the cell
| expands and everything in the table becomes misaligned. When viewed in a
| browser, I want the cell to display something like a <TEXTAREA></TEXTAREA>
| tag would behave but I want marked-up text inside the box/pane, not plain
| text. I've been trying to research how to do this and understand that
Java,
| VB, etc. can do it but I'm not a programmer. I'm lost at how to get this
| done. Can anyone point me to some step-by-step advice that will allow me
to
| create this scrolling panel for HTML content inside of a cell within my
| table? Thanks, Mardon
|
|

 

[Mardon]

http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/resources/codesamples.htm#News

The Java news scroller described at the above URL is not what I am looking
for. I want to create a box with a manual scroll bar on the right side.
The box is to contain text, formatted with standard HTML tags. I want the
website visitor to use the manual scroll bar to move up and down, as they
browse through the HTML formatted text. Any other ideas?

 

[Jim Buyens]

Generally, an inline frame works OK for this. So would a
full-blown frameset.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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-----Original Message-----
I have a webpage made from a relatively complex table and I want to put a
large amount of text (with HTML markup) inside one of the cells of the
table. If I simply try to add as much text as I need to add, the cell
expands and everything in the table becomes misaligned. When viewed in a
browser, I want the cell to display something like a

<TEXTAREA>>tag would behave but I want marked-up text
inside the box/pane, not plain >text. I've been trying to
research how to do this and understand that Java, >VB,
etc. can do it but I'm not a programmer. I'm lost at how
to get this >done. Can anyone point me to some step-by-
step advice that will allow me to >create this scrolling
panel for HTML content inside of a cell within my >table?
Thanks, Mardon > > >. >

 

[Mardon]

Generally, an inline frame works OK for this.
So would a full-blown frameset.

Thanks for suggesting an inline frame. With only one exception, that works
great. If I view my page containing the IFrame using IE and choose a font
size larger than "medium", the text inside the IFrame spills off the right
edge of the frame and no horizontal scroll bar appears to allow the text to
be seen. With the smaller font sizes things work fine but I hate to use the
IFrame solution if I can't overcome this problem with the large fonts. Is
there a way to fix it? I had hoped/thought that if a website visitor was
using IE with a large font that the text in the IFrame would just wrap
around sooner, but it doesn't. Suggestions? Thanks again for responding.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Under the IFrame properties you can enable scrollbars. Also placing the text in a table on the page
that will be loaded into the IFrame.

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[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

Mardon,

Did you see this one? http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/manualscroll.htm

It doesn't give you scroll bars, but it does give the user control via Up,Down,Stop, and it can use html.




| > Generally, an inline frame works OK for this.
| > So would a full-blown frameset.
|
| Thanks for suggesting an inline frame. With only one exception, that works
| great. If I view my page containing the IFrame using IE and choose a font
| size larger than "medium", the text inside the IFrame spills off the right
| edge of the frame and no horizontal scroll bar appears to allow the text to
| be seen. With the smaller font sizes things work fine but I hate to use the
| IFrame solution if I can't overcome this problem with the large fonts. Is
| there a way to fix it? I had hoped/thought that if a website visitor was
| using IE with a large font that the text in the IFrame would just wrap
| around sooner, but it doesn't. Suggestions? Thanks again for responding.
|
|

 

[Mardon]

..If I view my page containing the IFrame using IE
and choose a font size larger than "medium", the
text inside the IFrame spills off the right edge of the
frame...

Stupid me! ;-(
The IFrame works just fine. My concern over the large font sizes in IE was
a stupid mistake on my part. When I changed the font size to test the page
appearence, the IFrame text content size changed immediately and I could not
see the entire line. What I didn't stop to think about was that I needed to
Refresh the page. Once I did that, the IFrame was fine. If someone enters
the page with the large font already selected in IE, everything works fine
also. IFrames seem to be the best of the suggested solutions for my
purpose. The other ideas are good but none of them matched my needs quite
as well as the IFrame. Thanks again to everyone who replied. This is a
very helpful group! Mardon