Is it possible and practical, in your opinion, to use scrollers in various cells of one large table? Possibly as many as 20 scrollers in one table?

First of all, it is not a good idea to put scrollers into table cells, because Netscape 4x will not properly render layers in tables.

In theory it is possible to put as many as 20 scrollers on one page, but in my opinion it wouldn't be practical at all.
I think it would be very confusing to users having to scroll so many content pieces separately.

So as you can see, I don't think putting many scrollers on one page is the way to go.

Hope this helps.

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Marja Ribbers-de Vroed
www.flevooware.nl
www.flevooware.nl/dreamweaver/

Thanks for your speedy reply. In our case, it would be very useful - and much less confusing. However, the other helpful points you make override that fact.
Regards.

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Thanks for your speedy reply. In our case, it would be very useful - and much less confusing. However, the other helpful points you make override that fact.
Regards.
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If you really want to design your page that way, then you can simulate the scrollers being in the table cells:
<ul><li>Put shim images (transparent GIFs) in the table cells where you would want your scrollers to be displayed, and make those images exactly the same size as the scrollers will be.</li>
<li>You'll be using the shims as anchors for the scrollers, so give them all unique names for Scroller Genie to be able to tell them apart.</li>
<li>Create the scrollers and use the Scroller Genie 'anchoring' feature to attach them to the shims.</li>
<li>To avoid any scroller 'jumping' when the page loads, make the scrollers hidden initially and show them once the page has loaded using the standard Show/Hide Layers behavior (or my ToggleLayers behavior) on the onLoad event of the BODY tag.
Make sure these 'show scroller' actions are the last ones listed for the onLoad event of the BODY tag. </li></ul>
The scrollers will now even move with your table on window resize, just as if they were actually in the table.

Hope this helps.

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Marja Ribbers-de Vroed
www.flevooware.nl
www.flevooware.nl/dreamweaver/


Edited by - MarjaR on 27 Jun 2003 10:27:27

Edited by - MarjaR on 27 Jun 2003 10:29:38