How to create a scrollable Div Tag Vertically?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2295766

Question

I want to create a scrollable div tag with a fixed height that gets a vertical scroll bar. I'm trying to get this to work in chrome.

This is my CSS:

#designDiv
{
    width:249px;
    height:299px;
    background-color:Gray;
    overflow-y: scroll;
    max-width:230px;
    max-height:100px;
}

It does show the vertical scroll bar but the problem is during the run-time when the user adds some content to the #designDiv. It does not scroll and the #designDiv begins to expand vertically.

How do I create a scrollable div tag vertically for chrome?

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Solution

Well, your code worked for me (running Chrome 5.0.307.9 and Firefox 3.5.8 on Ubuntu 9.10), though I switched

overflow-y: scroll;

to

overflow-y: auto;

Demo page over at: http://davidrhysthomas.co.uk/so/tableDiv.html.

xhtml below:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
    <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

    <title>Div in table</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/stylesheet.css" />

        <style type="text/css" media="all">

        th      {border-bottom: 2px solid #ccc; }

        th,td       {padding: 0.5em 1em; 
                margin: 0;
                border-collapse: collapse;
                }

        tr td:first-child
                {border-right: 2px solid #ccc; } 

        td > div    {width: 249px;
                height: 299px;
                background-color:Gray;
                overflow-y: auto;
                max-width:230px;
                max-height:100px;
                }
        </style>

    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">

    </script>

</head>

<body>

<div>

    <table>

        <thead>
            <tr><th>This is column one</th><th>This is column two</th><th>This is column three</th>
        </thead>



        <tbody>
            <tr><td>This is row one</td><td>data point 2.1</td><td>data point 3.1</td>
            <tr><td>This is row two</td><td>data point 2.2</td><td>data point 3.2</td>
            <tr><td>This is row three</td><td>data point 2.3</td><td>data point 3.3</td>
            <tr><td>This is row four</td><td><div><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum ultricies mattis dolor. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Vestibulum a accumsan purus. Vivamus semper tempus nisi et convallis. Aliquam pretium rutrum lacus sed auctor. Phasellus viverra elit vel neque lacinia ut dictum mauris aliquet. Etiam elementum iaculis lectus, laoreet tempor ligula aliquet non. Mauris ornare adipiscing feugiat. Vivamus condimentum luctus tortor venenatis fermentum. Maecenas eu risus nec leo vehicula mattis. In nisi nibh, fermentum vitae tincidunt non, mattis eu metus. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nunc vel est purus. Ut accumsan, elit non lacinia porta, nibh magna pretium ligula, sed iaculis metus tortor aliquam urna. Duis commodo tincidunt aliquam. Maecenas in augue ut ligula sodales elementum quis vitae risus. Vivamus mollis blandit magna, eu fringilla velit auctor sed.</p></div></td><td>data point 3.4</td>
            <tr><td>This is row five</td><td>data point 2.5</td><td>data point 3.5</td>
            <tr><td>This is row six</td><td>data point 2.6</td><td>data point 3.6</td>
            <tr><td>This is row seven</td><td>data point 2.7</td><td>data point 3.7</td>
        </body>



    </table>

</div>

</body>

</html>

OTHER TIPS

This code creates a nice vertical scrollbar for me in Firefox and Chrome:

CSS:

#answerform{
    position: absolute;
    border: 5px solid gray;
    padding: 5px;
    background: white;
    width: 300px;
    height: 400px;
    overflow-y: scroll;
}

HTML:

<div id='answerform'>
    badger<br><br>badger<br><br>badger<br><br>badger<br><br>badger<br><br>
    mushroom<br><br>mushroom<br><br>
    a badger<br><br>badger<br><br>badger<br><br>badger<br><br>badger<br><br>
</div>

Here is a JS fiddle demo proving the above works.

Adding overflow:auto before setting overflow-y seems to do the trick in Google Chrome.

{
    width:249px;
    height:299px;
    background-color:Gray;
    overflow: auto;
    overflow-y: scroll;
    max-width:230px;
    max-height:100px;
}
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