Posted by wombat on 02/10/07 14:10

In article <slrnesn4l0.248.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:

> 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?

Yep I tried all that, everything down to the BODY I had set to 100%
except for the containing TD which was set at 50% (there was a TD below
it at 50%), and the DIV in the upper TD was set at 100%.. still it
pushed the cel below it and beyond the bottom of the browser. I've since
switched to using frames. Not what I wanted, but have to defeat this
monster. Thanks.

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