Custom scroll bar

[Vinxent]

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PS>> can I also please get help splitting that up right im an artist not a coder but would love to know how to creat inline frames or such and i want the window to pop up the size of my site. Thank you for your time!~
-Vinxent

[jscheuer1]

i want the window to pop up the size of my site.

What is the size of your site? Sites don't really have sizes, what makes you think that yours does?

Anyways, about custom scrollbars, there are ways of doing that. There is the IE only css method (which is now beginning to be adopted by some other browsers but, is a long way off from being universal) or many different cross browser javascript methods. The disadvantage of javascript is that not everyone has it enabled but, the good script solutions allow the layout to degrade gracefully to the browser's default scrollbars when javascript is disabled.

see:

http://www.hesido.com/web.php?page=customscrollbar

or just Google:

custom scrollbars javascript

[Vinxent]

Thank you for your help its very appreciated! as far as the size goes i like my site compact but, if you suggest that thats a bad idea then I'll take your word for it ^_^.

[jscheuer1]

I thought it was something like that. What you are really talking about is the layout of your page(s). The designer is free to lay out the page any way he or she sees fit. But, if your aim is to force the user to view that page in a window with no margins or padding, this isn't really possible. You can do something close to it by having a relatively plain intro page that has a single link on it that will pop up a window of the desired size leading to the rest of your site. However, if the user's screen is too small for this window or if their browser will not allow and/or understand the instructions to do this, the result will probably be that they cannot view your content. These types of cases are becoming increasingly common, what with the advent of more and more folks browsing with javascript turned off or with their pop up blockers set to not allow even 'user initiated' pop ups.

You are better off designing your pages so that they will look OK at any size or resolution with the content flowing to fill the available space and the overflow (in those window sizes where there is any overflow) available for viewing via vertical scrolling of the window.

If you must use a non-fluid block type of layout, then choose to either center it in the window or to position it top left. In small windows, this will result in the horizontal scrollbar appearing, something most designers wish to avoid.

[Twey]

There's an A in "featured," and only one F in "references" :)

Off-topic: above was John's 6,000th post. Congratulations, John!

[Vinxent]

Lol thanks ^_^ im not so gifted in the spelling department but always great to have help.