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forever

06-30-2002, 08:00 AM

does anyone know how to put the scrollbar on the left side of the page, but keep the content still aligned to the right?

boxer_1

06-30-2002, 01:12 PM

Are you talking about something like in this example?:

<html dir="RTL">
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
such as in the paragraph below.
 
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah...
 
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah...
 
 
 
 
 
</body>
</html>

Is this what you were looking for? Good luck ;).

Tonz

06-30-2002, 09:03 PM

Boxer,

I thought dir="ltr" was only supported in html 4.

How does it effect the page in various browsers.

It seems to me to be an obsolite tag!

I am confused now??????

Please expand a little if you can

Thanx

Tonz

forever.

are you thinking of "frames"

ie:.....

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Left scrollbar</title>
</head>

<frameset cols="80,*">
<frame src="leftframecontent.htm" name="leftframe" noresize scrolling="yes">
<frame src="mainframecontent.html" name="mainframe" noresize>
</frameset>
<noframes>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff">

</body>
you don't have the facility to view frames - so there
</noframes>

</html>

If you want to, you could set the frameset width to cols="1,*" (1 pixel width for the left frame, auto for the main frame) and this will give you a scroll bar to the left....

Tonz

boxer_1

06-30-2002, 10:07 PM

Tonz,

You're correct, it is not very cross browser.

Like you suggested, probably forever is looking for frames. When I first read it the first thing that came to mind was dir="rtl/ltr" since he mentioned text alignment and the scrollbar on the left.

A different sort of example for anyone who's interested, paste the following into your address bar and hit Enter:

javascript:void(document.dir="RTL");

My post is a confusing...even to me on a second look...lol. Got a bit mixed up :D.

Quiet Storm

06-30-2002, 10:15 PM

I've something like that.

http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/cbch21/2/FYI.html
(IE only)

jkd

06-30-2002, 10:17 PM

javascript:void(document.documentElement.setAttribute('dir','rtl'));

Is the way to do it in Gecko, but that doesn't change the scrollbar position, just changes the dir of content. I think it is up to the user agent to reposition the scrollbar or not... not sure though.

Quiet Storm

06-30-2002, 11:40 PM

My page works just fine.

Scrolbar on the left of the page... all text readable from left-to-right.

What's the problem?

:confused:

Tonz

07-01-2002, 03:09 AM

Boxer

No the post wasn't confusing, just my understanding of the ltr thing.

Thanx.

Quite storm...

LMAO.

Very cleaver, how did ya do it?

Tonz

BTW, doesn't read ltr when I stand on my head though?????:thumbsup:

Quiet Storm

07-01-2002, 11:18 PM

Basicly:

<HTML dir="rtl">

<BODY>

<DIV ALIGN="left">
?Here's some text, just don't end the final sentance with a period/questionmark/etc because it will show up before the text. Try putting it at the front, maybe
</DIV>

Try that. :)

Zvona

07-02-2002, 08:22 AM

Attribute dir="rtl" is used when your language is written from right-to-left (Some Arabic languages, for instance). Thus, it's not meant to be used for style manipulation.

But Like QStorm already suggested, you should define your document from right-to-left and every element in it aligned from left-to-right.

QuackHead

07-03-2002, 08:23 PM

whoa, that's trippy :rolleyes:

~Quack

Quiet Storm

07-03-2002, 09:02 PM

Did it to my friend's first page of his site:

http://angelfire.com/mo/mav/

He doesn't know about it yet. :D
It was interesting to see - there is absolutely no difference in the design or positioning on his site, just the scrollbar. :confused:

<edit>
Just figured something out:

<HTML DIR="rtl">

<BODY>

<DIV DIR="ltr">

...will set it perfectly with no period/question mark adjustments.