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[VerticalR]

Im in the middle of building this web site for my band Vertical Republic, and ive got the design down and links to all the pages, but very new to Dreamweaver mx and im not quite sure how to make a scroll box. Can someone please help with this?

thanks,
Aaron

[tdietz]

I manually type in all my HTML so I can't help you with dreamweaver. But it's a very simple code to create a scroll bar area with text.

<TEXTAREA NAME="comment" ROWS=6 COLS=40>
</TEXTAREA>

Just add what you want in the scrollbar between the two tags...


Hope this helped,
-Troy

[VerticalR]

Oh my gosh, that was so simple! Thanks a bunch man!

one more thing, how can I make the box Transparent but not the text?
and how do I change the font and the color of the font?

Aaron

[tdietz]

Glad to be of some service. The least I could do with all the help I find here myself. Editing the font is pretty easy. Just add this code and see for yourself:

<TEXTAREA NAME="comment" ROWS=6 COLS=40 style="background:transparent; font-size: 9px; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: arial">

Editing the options should be pretty self explanatory.  Your background should now be transparent.  If you need more help on modifying the code, just ask!
</TEXTAREA>

Anytime,
-Troy

[VerticalR]

Its not going to transparent. When I change the background color there's a drop down list that pops up and the transparent option is not there.

What do i need to do?

Aaron

[Sicloan]

try:

<div style="overflow:auto; width:400px height:500px;"> content </div>

Change the width and height as needed.

[Twitchxx]

Glad to be of some service. The least I could do with all the help I find here myself. Editing the font is pretty easy. Just add this code and see for yourself:

<TEXTAREA NAME="comment" ROWS=6 COLS=40 style="background:transparent; font-size: 9px; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: arial">

Editing the options should be pretty self explanatory.  Your background should now be transparent.  If you need more help on modifying the code, just ask!
</TEXTAREA>

Anytime,
-Troy

Um, how do I make it align all the way to the left?
Cause when I put align left, it just puts it in the center.

[lildop]

I don't kow if people are still reading this thread but if anyone can help me, it would be a big help.

The code has worked, its transparent just how I want it, it scrolls how I want it. Great so far.

When I come to upload it, I can edit the text which I dont want, also I dont want it to have a pixel boarder around it.

I have changed my page back to how it was, but this is the page http://lildop.com/games.html

The area where the text is, I want the text to be bigger and to scroll with a very thin or invisible scroll bar and also no boarder if that is possible. I am using Dreamweaver CS3. If anyone can help, please because it is driving me mad!

UPDATE: I have done the area I want. Now I just want to get rid of the boarder, this is the code I have;

<TEXTAREA NAME="story of thor" COLS=95 ROWS=40 readonly="readonly" style="background:transparent; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; color: white; font-weight: bold; font-family: veranda"> some text </TEXTAREA>

That code works for what I need. Now how do I get rid of the boarder around it lol

Edited by lildop, 17 August 2008 - 12:41 PM.