Re: feature for HTML

From: Tim Bagot <tsb@earth.li> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:56:14 +0000 (UTC) To: HTML mailing list <www-html@w3.org> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990218144937.464S-100000@c32.keble.ox.ac.uk> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:15:38 GMT

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Alex Montgomery wrote:

> In argument for frames, With CSS how would you get a fixed positioning
> element to scroll with it's own scrollbar... (say you had a navbar on the
> left, and it was longer than the UA's window size...)

I think this can be done with { overflow: scroll } or { overflow: auto }; 
I believe this applies to all block-level elements. Even so, there are
things which can't be done sanely with neither frames nor scripting. 

Tim Bagot