How to Add a Text Scrollbar in Dreamweaver 8

Dreamweaver is a powerful but complicated program. With Web design possibilities nearly endless, it can be hard to figure out how to accomplish what seems like a minor task, like adding a scrollbar to a section of text. However, the solution to that problem is simple and easy to implement as many times as you wish.

Instructions

1. Open the file in Dreamweaver 8 and click on the Code tab at the top of the document window.

2. Locate the section of text in the file that you wish to add a scrollbar to. Add "<div>" at the beginning of the section and "</div>" at the end of the section.

3. Inside the first <div>, add style="overflow:auto;" so the entire line looks like this:

   <div style="overflow:auto;">

   This will make a scrollbar appear alongside the text whenever there's too much text to fit the section. If you'd like a scrollbar to appear all the time, regardless of how much text is in the section, change "auto" to "scroll."

4. Click on the Design tab to see the change go into effect.

References

• W3 Schools
• Adobe