html rendering in a box without and iframe

[canardo]

probably a weird request but I want to implement the following

scrollable area that grows like a textfield when I add content without using a textfield, basically want a marked area that has a fixed height that the browser will stick a scroll bar onto, the area will contain basically table rows (though not in a table unless necessary) can contain images etc (any html)

hope that makes sense, I cant for love nor money see an easy way of doing it

[BBK]

Off my head (usually am) it would seem a DHTML scrolling section is what you are after?

As an example -

http://simplythebest.net/scripts/DHT...script_93.html

works in IE only I think. Should be easy to replace the text links with the gfx required to make it look more like its scrolling.

[canardo]

cheers yeh thats basically how I am doing it at the moment with a fair whack of java script, was hoping there would be an easier way and I was making a mountain out of a mole hill, as quite happy for it to have a browser scroll bar

[hxbro]

<div id="messagesTable" style="width: 430px; height: 286px; overflow: auto"></div>

set your width and height and put the content in the div tag

it's the overflow: auto that does the scrolling, if there's less content than the height then it won't show the scrollbar

[canardo]

Thanks again hxbro karma added

[ElWappo]

That's useful...K+ from me too.