horizontal scroll html

saltedm8 · #1 (**permalink**) Sep 11th, 2007, 18:41

would anyone help me with this embarrising problem

i am trying to create a horizontal scroll bar in the bottom table here ( like it is in the [code] box below )

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="974" height="471" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td height="342">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

so instead of pushing it up and down, i want to push it left and right, but i have forgotton how

thanks

p.s - yes, there is a very good reason why i am using tables ( just in case you wondered )

alexgeek · #2 (**permalink**) Sep 11th, 2007, 20:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by saltedm8

p.s - yes, there is a very good reason why i am using tables ( just in case you wondered )

there better be!
just give it the property:
overflow: scroll
in your stylsheet

saltedm8 · #3 (**permalink**) Sep 12th, 2007, 04:56

lol thank you

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