One of the real handy features of CSS 2 is the ability to assign scrollbars to page elements. In this example, we will take a look at setting some scrollbars for a <p> tag. You will be surprised at how easy this is. All we need to do is redefine the tag via a CSS declaration as shown below:
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| <style type="text/css">
p {display: block; overflow: scroll;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px; position: absolute; height: 100px; width: 200px; left: 400px; top: 10px}
</style> |
Any element on the page can be scrolled, provided that that the element is designated with a block attribute e.g.., display: block to turn the scrollbars on we use overflow: scroll. The remainder of the CSS provides text formatting for the tag and we also use absolute positioning to better manage where the tag is positioned. We position the tag, by using the left and top attributes and assigning values to them. With CSS we can also specify the height and the width of the block. As you can clearly see CSS2 provides more powerful options than traditional HTML formatting. All that remains to be done is to provide a <p> tag in the body section of the HTML and we are good to go. Here's the full code to work from.
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| <html><head>
<style type="text/css">
P {display: block; overflow: scroll;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px; position: absolute; height: 100px; width: 200px; left: 400px; top: 10px}
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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</body>
</html> |
Beetje mee spelen.
position:relative maken en top:* en left* wegahalen en gewoon in je tabel zetten, dan pastie beter in je ley.