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The reason I need I need it is because I'm using a really slick template, but it's not designed to expand vertically. On pages where there's a lot of typed content, I want to put it in a text box that scrolls vertically, so the template stays in tact.
I'm sure I've seen this done with some simple html, not with frames or JavaScript but cannot find any examples now. Anyone got an idea on this?
readonly='readonly'
But it might be ok. I just want to have the paragraphs scroll vertically, it doesn't need to be edited. The visitors won't be able to enter anything. It's kind of like when you go to a website and they have the terms and conditions in a little box with a vertical scroll bar. Same idea, you see them all the time, only now that I want to look at one, I can't find one!
<div style="overflow:auto;height:100px;">
long stuff
</div>
<textarea id="blah" readonly="readonly">Your text</textarea>
This way people can not actually change the text in the textarea. You then set the size of the textarea, and if there is enough text in it, there will be vertical scroll bars.
Is there a thread in our Google Search forum that discusses this?
<div id="main" style="position:absolute; left:247px; top:225px; width:523px; height:321px; overflow: auto; visibility: visible;">
From our hammering by jagger, this may be true.
Anyways, after getting rid of the scrolling text box we are back up in the SERPs.
Dropping spammy external links may also have be a factor in getting back up.
I am just going to make a design that incorporates all the content without the scroll bars.
Ignore everything I mentioned about the scrolling text box being penalized. To test this hypothesis, I restored ours a few days ago and so far there has been no penalty in the SERPs. The opposite really... and you can tell its been crawled b/c our new-old content is in the descriptions.
There ya go. I guess jagger penalties are about bad links and duplicate content. But I don't know anything... read further, add original content.
someone mentioned somewhere that they were almost positive G wasn't reading content from things like<div id="main" style="position:absolute; left:247px; top:225px; width:523px; height:321px; overflow: auto; visibility: visible;">
Such positioning is widespread on the web, in the index and being ranked. There is nothing about this kind of mark-up that is problematic in my experience. However, in the interest of a cleaner html document, I would suggest putting all the inline "style=" rules and including them in the rules for #main (in an external stylesheet, I assume.)
someone mentioned somewhere that they were almost positive G wasn't reading content from things like<div id="main" style="position:absolute; left:247px; top:225px; width:523px; height:321px; overflow: auto; visibility: visible;">
Such positioning is widespread on the web, in the index and being ranked. There is nothing about this kind of mark-up that is problematic in my experience. However, in the interest of a cleaner html document, I would suggest putting all the inline "style=" rules and including them in the rules for #main (in an external stylesheet, I assume.)
Yes, I am working on upgrading my style sheets to deal with more than just fonts... trying to lose the dreamweaver crutch.
