Text Boxes?

[Lyle Christine]

I'd like to also have a news section on my site as one of those text boxes. What's the HTML to set that up?

Sorry for the basic questions but thanks again for any help.

 

[Porte]

Do you mean input field? or a box that contains news? I am not sure that your question is specific.

 

[Lyle Christine]

Just a box that contains news and people can scroll down. It looks the same as in input field.

 

[fish]

Are you talking about the <textarea> tags?

 

[PoorDoggie]

you don't want a textbox.

do this:

put this in the head part of your website:

<style>
#scroll {
width: somethingpx;
height: somethingpx;
overflow: auto;
}
</style>

and this where you want your news bit:

<div id="scroll">
HTML HERE
</div>

that will make a scrolling box when it overflows.

lovingly referenced from http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=93809&highlight=scroll+div

 

[Lyle Christine]

That's just the thing I was looking for, but when I'm designing and typing out the text in Dreamweaver all the text spills right down and over everything that's below it but when I preview it looks fine, scrolling bars containing the text.

Is there a way I can keep the text within the 'box' when I'm designing it in the dreamweaver page?

Thanks

 

[Rowan W]

That's just the thing I was looking for, but when I'm designing and typing out the text in Dreamweaver all the text spills right down and over everything that's below it but when I preview it looks fine, scrolling bars containing the text.

Is there a way I can keep the text within the 'box' when I'm designing it in the dreamweaver page?

Thanks

You design for web browsers, not Dreamweaver, just type in code view if it bothers you that much.

Dreamweaver only renders a rough preview of the page, it's never perfect.

 

[PoorDoggie]

instead of previewing in Dreamweaver, use code view then press F12 which previews it in iexplorer.

 

[Mike_Wiseman]

are you talking about an iframe?

 

[PoorDoggie]

are you talking about an iframe?

you should try and steer away from iframes as much as possible. Use a scrolling DIV with a php include

 

[DJ_Guvana]

If your new to coding why not use dreamweaver?

I use it, but it does has its setbacks, it helps you to learn though.

 

[PoorDoggie]

If your new to coding why not use dreamweaver?

I use it, but it does has its setbacks, it helps you to learn though.

meet

That's just the thing I was looking for, but when I'm designing and typing out the text in Dreamweaver all the text spills right down and over everything that's below it but when I preview it looks fine, scrolling bars containing the text.

Is there a way I can keep the text within the 'box' when I'm designing it in the dreamweaver page?

 

[1901gt]

lol u must be a newbie. You need to be comfortable with HTML first. Understand all the HTML tag. After that you will be comfortable and switch to and fro Design View and Code View.