Re: Scrolled selection list.

Suresh B. Kumar (skumar@ciesin.org)
Fri, 27 Jan 1995 21:44:43 +0100


On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, William Perry wrote:

> Suresh B. Kumar writes:
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am sure the HTML 2.0 does not give the option of making
> >a scorlled list scrollable horizontally. i.e we could specify
> ><SELECT NAME="who-to-do-it-with" ROWS=8 COLS=20>.
> >Does HTML 3.0 provide a similar capability? It would be a
> >good UI feature, that too when you would like to provide the
> >user the exact info (text) he is looking for and less
> >headache to the server in terms of pattern matching etc,
> >any comments?
>
> Not sure what exactly you mean by this. Currently you can do:
>
> +----------+
> | Item #1 ^
> | Item #2 |
> | Item #3 |
> | Item #4 |
> | Item #5 /
> +----------+
>
> You want something like:
>
> +-------------------------------------------------+
> | Item #1 | Item #2 | Item #3 | Item #4 | Item #5 |
> +<----------------------------------------------->+
>
> Is that what you mean?
>
> -Bill P
>
No, something like this:

+----------+
| Item #1.....^
| Item #2.....|
| Item #3.....|
| Item #4.....|
| Item #5.....|
+=============>