Using Textarea Scrollbars

Question

Before I started using Dreamweaver, I used notepad. And I
would use textarea scrollbars for excessive text.
http://www.funky-chickens.com/tarea.shtml
...At the bottom, where it says Textarea allowing HTML. I usually
use that on my previous websites. But using dreamweaver, when I
install that snippet it creates problems and the tables stretch and
screws up the whole site. How do I make that function work. I
looked around and couldn't find that option
Can anyone help me?
A reference to how I use it:
http://leyendarecords.com/biography.html
... Theres a website I made for someone. If you check out that
page, you can see that I have scrollbars and text inside it. A
friend made that template on Dreamweaver and I did everything on
Notepad. Exactly how do I do that?

Answer 1

That code is SO ANTIQUE it's unbelievable.
<ilayer name="scroll1">
<div id="scroll3"
style="width:100;height:75;
background-color:COLORHERE;
overflow:auto">
TEXT HTML TEXT HTML
</textarea></div>The <ilayer> tag is not
recognized by any browser than
NN4x, and that browser is nearly extinct. In addition, they
even omit the
opening <textarea> tag and the closing </ilayer>
tag, so in addition to
being hopelessly antique, it's invalid too.
> But using dreamweaver, when I install that snippet it
> creates problems and the tables stretch and screws up
the whole site. How
> do I
> make that function work.
That's not surprising. DW doesn't know what to do with this
markup.
You could try just removing the <ilayer> tag -
<div id="scroll3"
style="width:100px;height:75px;background-color:COLORHERE;overflow:auto"><textarea>
TEXT HTML TEXT HTML</textarea></div>
but all form elements are required to be within an explicit
<form>, so
you'll have to add that -
<div id="scroll3"
style="width:100px;height:75px;background-color:COLORHERE;overflow:auto"><form>
<textarea>TEXT HTML TEXT
HTML</textarea></form></div>
And then both the form tag and the textarea tag have some
necessary
attributes, so you'll have to add them too....
I recommend you not use something like this, anyhow. There is
a good
discussion on this forum from just today about why it's a
poor layout/design
decision....
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"streekd" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Before I started using Dreamweaver, I used notepad. And
I would use
> textarea
> scrollbars for excessive text.
http://www.funky-chickens.com/tarea.shtml
> ...At
> the bottom, where it says Textarea allowing HTML. I
usually use that on my
> previous websites. But using dreamweaver, when I install
that snippet it
> creates problems and the tables stretch and screws up
the whole site. How
> do I
> make that function work. I looked around and couldn't
find that option
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> A reference to how I use it:
http://leyendarecords.com/biography.html
> Theres a website I made for someone. If you check out
that page, you can
> see
> that I have scrollbars and text inside it. A friend made
that template on
> Dreamweaver and I did everything on Notepad. Exactly how
do I do that?
>