Posted by Ben C on 02/08/07 21:15

On 2007-02-08, wombat <64@k.com> wrote:
> Ok, since IFRAME didn't work for me.. I'm back to trying to use DIV.
>
> What I have been trying to do is use DIV to force output to scroll if it
> exceeds the given height and width of the TD that contains the DIV. The
> TD is 50% of the screen in both height and width and I tried using
> overflow: scroll for the DIV tag but the output is still pushing the
> size of the TD beyond what I had it set for (and the scroll bar for the
> DIV tag still appears as it's supposed to with its overflow setting). Is
> it possible to force DIV to not push the height and width settings for
> the TD?

Setting height and width on the DIV (and overflow: scroll) should do it.

But you need to set them to actual values, not percentages, which is not
what you want.

I don't see why percentages shouldn't work (after all the dimensions of
the containing block are resolvable), but they don't in Opera, Firefox or
Konqueror.

The other option is not to use a <td>, what's the context?

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