Well not really. I can manually extend the page downward to show the black background as far as I want. But if I try to minimize the vertical extension of the page in the browser to my page design, the vertical scroll bar in the browser window does not appear before I almost touch the lowest item on the page. How come?
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Because the page stops at the lowest item. A web page is not the same as a print page; there is no physical medium to work to. COntent takes up as much vertically as it needs to.
So, if the bottom kit item is 10 pixels high, and it’s positioned at (say) 500 pixels from the top, the total height of your page is 510 pixels. If the browser window is taller than 560 pixels (which these days is more likely to be pretty common), then you won’t get scroll bars.
Conversely, if your page contains content that occupies 2000 vertical pixels, then you will get scroll bars and the physical height of the page according to the browser will be treated as 2000 pixels.
For web sites, page height = content height.
Freeway does give you the option to put in a physical height for the page, but that’s more of a guide for you when designing. There may be times when you do need that help - maybe you are designing for a fixed window height, or a kiosk. In that case being able to set the dimensions of the screen will be important. When designing for the web, less so.
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Hi Paul,
thank you for your fast and extensive answer.
I also discovered something else, which satisfies my exspectation:
If the page is first previewed, before I touch the resizing handle, my 20 px bottom frame is displayed as intended. Fine.
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