Preserved Topic: Speaking of DHTML Scrollers... I have a question... (Page 1 of 1)

Is there any way to make a DHTML scroll bar liquid, so that i will resize to the shape of your browser window or a table that you place it in? The reason I ask is because I would like to make the DHTML scroll bar replace the regular IE scroll bar (so I can use images as the scroller), but I still want the site to be resizable to any resolution/browser size. All the tutorials I have seen only show hard-coded height/width, and I would like to use % if possible. Thanks again.

ummm.... bump?!

I would suggest you to forget about this. One reason why you should forget about this is that it would require a lot of (dirty) coding. Another reason is that even if you manage to write such scroller, it will eventually lead to browser / system crashing, since large layers consume a lot of computer resources (and we all know that Windows 9x has horrible resource management).

I think slime has something like that on his site? not sure though..

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Max, is right it would use up a lot of resources, but I actually plan on writing a similar script, for a site im making which wont be finiShed for ages, there are a few "short-cuts" you can take in making it, for example, the height of the bar on normal windows change depending on the amount of contents, you can make it scroll the page faster or slower depending on the length of content (using a small bar always) also you can make scrollers WITHOUT clipping, by placing an image over the top and bottom of the scrolling div, well you cant of course do this everytime, but when there is just one main scroller, that takes up most the screen, its very easy to do then.

Also never set anything to a percent, width or height in anything !, well thats my little rule, it fecks up always

P.s I've never seen this been done, so you'd have to code it from scratch yourself, like Im going to attempt to , I think it will be succesfully done.

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If we were talking about doing this for only *one* browser, I think it would be much more feasible. I write my code to be as cross-browser compatible as I have time for and believe me this one would be *nasty*. Slime's windows are very nice and resizable but he didn't even bother with cross-browser considerations. There are still a few people, like Doc Ozone himself, who use NN4 on the Mac.

If anyone makes any progess on this one, please come back and let us see.

thanks for all your feedback on this one guys. I supposed I will have to find another way around it!

Yeah, my scroll bar script *could* be made to fit the screen, but it would not be a fun task. And Netscape Navigator would be horrible when it comes to resizing.