[Pro] Text window with side bar?

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Hi all, I’m new to this forum and freeway 5.5 pro I am looking for advice on adding a text window with a side bar like the one in this link. www.estetics.co.uk
Thanking in advance for any help

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Not quite sure what you are looking for but this example uses an image to define the text areas.

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But there is no reason why you cannot just draw out these areas on your FW page and give the text boxes coloured backgrounds.

David

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Hi David, the example that you added does not show what I need for some reason? Any way what I what to do is add a text window with a scroll bar. So that no matter how much text is added the physical size of the text widow stays the same but you can scroll up and down to read the text within, just the same as a side bar on a page! Hope this makes sence?

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Simply draw an HTML item on your page at the size you want and in the Inspector (with the item selected) set overflow to Scroll.

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Thank you David I will give it a try.

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A big thank you David! I have just done as you said and it works a treat. That’s one less headache!
Thanx again

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I see it on the example page you posted now but I had to increase the text size in my browser.

The reason they have done it this way is because the background image is a fixed size so cant expand to fit more content or a larger text size.

You can quite easily construct a page in FW that would look the same and have text areas that would expand if your text size was greater or more of it.

BTW your eyesight must be worse than mine if it was showing the scroll bar.

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Dave, just jumping in here as I am looking to do a similar thing.

The result I have is that the box is showing an empty horizontal scroll bar at the bottom.

Any ideas?

Mark

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The only way to do this (scroll one direction only) is to use the
Extended dialog. First, remove the overflow setting you added with the
Inspector (change it back to the default of "Visible). Then from the
main menu choose Item / Extended, and make sure that the DIV Style tab
is selected. Then click new, and enter the following name/value pair:

  • Name: overflow-y
  • Value: auto

This will cause the scroll bar to appear only if it’s needed and then
only on the y-axis (vertical scroll).

Walter

On Dec 15, 2010, at 5:38 AM, MarkSmith wrote:

The result I have is that the box is showing an empty horizontal
scroll bar at the bottom.

Any ideas?

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Thanx Walter,
That was going to be my next question, but you answered it first. Fantastic.
Andy

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Thanks Walter!

On 15 Dec 2010, 12:16 pm, waltd wrote:

The only way to do this (scroll one direction only) is to use the
Extended dialog. First, remove the overflow setting you added with the
Inspector (change it back to the default of "Visible). Then from the
main menu choose Item / Extended, and make sure that the DIV Style tab
is selected. Then click new, and enter the following name/value pair:

  • Name: overflow-y
  • Value: auto

This will cause the scroll bar to appear only if it’s needed and then
only on the y-axis (vertical scroll).

Walter

On Dec 15, 2010, at 5:38 AM, MarkSmith wrote:

The result I have is that the box is showing an empty horizontal
scroll bar at the bottom.

Any ideas?

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