HTML Scrollbar

[SaikonoYume]

I'm currently working on a school project in Dreamweaver and I'm fairly HTML/CSS/any programming language inept. I'm using tables (I know, I'm a horrible person), and I need a scrollbar in one of them. I've looked at several tutorials, several suggestions in this forum and others, and they haven't helped.

I think part of the problem is that my navigation buttons run down the side of computer, and I want the text next to it. To do that, I simply put a table within a table. But now I have now idea what to do with the codes most people give me.

Still, like I said, I'm fairly inept at web programming. If anyone could help me with this, I'd be very, very grateful.

[boogyman]

 <table style="overflow: scroll">

[Twey]

I'm fairly HTML/CSS/any programming language inept.

HTML and CSS aren't programming languages

There's really no need to use tables here, I think... it should be easy enough to do with CSS. One <div> down the side with the icons, floated left, and another, also floated left, with everything else.

[techno_race]

Yes, HTML and CSS are programming languages. So are JavaScript, Java, PHP, ASP, C, C+, C++, VBScript and Perl.

[Twey]

HTML is a markup language, and CSS is a stylesheet language. Neither is a programming language.

VBScript and Javascript are (surprisingly) classified as scripting languages, although the boundary between programming languages and scripting languages is blurred: a scripting language is a programming language designed for rapid development. Perl and PHP (and Python too) are debatable for this reason, but I think most people would agree with me in defining them as scripting languages. C+ does not exist, and ASP is not a language of itself, but a technology by which the output from various languages can be embedded into HTML. The most common language used with ASP is VBScript.

[SaikonoYume]

Thanks so much for all your help, and sorry to have started a little fight... I can't believe I said "programming language" anyhow, since I'm in a class that talks about the differences between programming and markup languages.

[Twey]

It was a discussion, not a fight, and techno_race seems to have benefitted from it, so all is good.

Back to the original topic, there isn't even a real temptation to use tables for this sort of layout. Some can get quite complex to do with CSS, but this isn't one of them. You can give any element a scrollbar by applying overflow: scroll; as pissa said, or you can use overflow: auto; to show scrollbars only when the content is large enough to require them.

[mwinter]

VBScript and Javascript are (surprisingly) classified as scripting languages, although the boundary between programming languages and scripting languages is blurred: a scripting language is a programming language designed for rapid development.

Another way to define them is to consider dependency. Scripting languages usually depend upon a larger program; they are embedded in, or hosted by, something else.

Mike

[Twey]

Hmm. I don't like that definition, since it's perfectly possible to find Java interpreters, which nevertheless doesn't make Java a scripting language, and likewise it's theoretically possible to build compilers for any of the many scripting languages in the wild today (thus I'm sure there are many, but I can't think of any off the top of my head), but again, that doesn't make them programming languages.

[mburt]

but again, that doesn't make them programming languages.

HTML, hence, hypertext markup-language.