HTML scrolling attribute

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:39 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

scrolling

The purpose of the HTML scrolling attribute is to specify whether the scrollbar should be shown or not for iframe and frame elements.

Supported elements

HTML scrolling attribute supports iframe and frame elements.

Syntax

<ElementName scrolling="value" >.....</ElementName>

Where ElementName is any supported element.

Type of value

Predefined.

Value

Values	Description
yes	Scrollbar is shown always.
no	Scrollbar never showed.
auto	If the height of the content exceeds the height of the frame or iframe, a scrollbar should be shown.

Default value

The default value of HTML scrolling attribute is auto.

Supported doctypes

HTML 4.01 frameset when used with frame element.

All, when used with iframe element.

Example of HTML scrolling attribute with iframe element

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example of HTML scrolling attribute with iframe element</title>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="../../sql/customer.php" height="100%" width="540" frameborder="1" title="The customer inforamtion" scrolling="auto"> </iframe> 
</body>
</html>

Result

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Example of HTML scrolling attribute with iframe element

Example of HTML scrolling attribute with frame element

 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example of HTML scrolling attribute with iframe element</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="20%,*,20%" > 
<frame src="header.html" frameborder="1"  name="header" title="Header window" scrolling="auto"> 
<frame src="content.html" frameborder="0"  name="content" title="Content window" scrolling="auto">
<frame src="footer.html" frameborder="0"  name="footer" title="footer window" scrolling="auto">
</frameset>
</html>

Result

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Example of HTML scrolling attribute with frame element

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