What are the "scrolling areas" called????

[Chuck1966]

What are the "scrolling areas" really called????

By scrolling areas I mean e.g. the areas (below "select all") which contain the code for the various dynamic effects on most pages of this site.

Can these be created in FrontPage 2003 and/or do they need a DHTML script themselves?

[ddadmin]

If I understood correctly, they're simply <textarea> elements. For example:

<form>
<textarea style="width: 400px; height: 200px; border: 1px solid black">
Some code
Some code
</textarea>
</form>

Edit: Thx for the reminder.

[djr33]

Forgot the </textarea> tag

<textarea>.........</textarea>

Also, if you want to control it by cols/rows, you can do that too, instead of style:
<textarea cols="50" rows="10"> (that should be something close to square, since rows are larger than columns)

[Chuck1966]

Thanks for your very prompt reply. It is not just for text - I'm trying to achieve something similar to http://realworldrecords.com/features/

Is that a different scenario?

[djr33]

Ah.
iframes.

Frames are set by a frameset on the page and must fill the entire page... so... must be a grid, the entire size of the window.
But that's annoying.
So along came iframes= inline frames.

<iframe src="theotheurl.htm" width="200" height="100">Text here to display for those people who don't have frames, like "Please get a browser with frames."</iframe>

Easy.

However, they're not particularly compatible, so don't use them unless you need to.

There are ways, though a bit complex, to use a div (<div></div>) tag to mimic that, but within a page, so that's likely the better option than an iframe for compatiblity unless you do need an outside page in there.

[Chuck1966]

<iframe src="theotheurl.htm" width="200" height="100">Text here to display for those people who don't have frames, like "Please get a browser with frames."</iframe>

So I simply create another page which the above code uses to put in the scrollable window (iframe)?

[djr33]

Correct.
That's it.

src, source... like for an image tag.

[Chuck1966]

Thanks - I'll now try and put it into practice!

[Chuck1966]

So, first attempt ends up like this:
http://www.brunocavellec.com/Exhibitions.htm

Okay, but aesthetically it would look better to remove the white iframe border (or make it black) and have the scroll bar touching the right hand edge of the table. The scroll bar also need to be changed to match a colour (rust/mustard) of the rest of the design.
I can't see how to work into the iframe to define these things (using FrontPage2003). Can it be done!?

Maybe I should move this to a FrontPage forum!?!

[Chuck1966]

Right - sorry ignore most of the last posts'problems.
Just the colour of the scroll bar to change!