Hi all, Thank you, Georg, for having taken time to answer me. It's a pity that what I desired is not possible, whereas I started to think that CSS makes everything possible :-) I decided to place my left-side menu with absolute position and put the right-side of the page into an iframe. Thus the menu is always visible when the user scrolls down, but also when he scrolls left, which makes him unable to benefit from the full width of his browser window to read the true content... unfortunately.
I would like to get rid of that iframe, though, but keeping the same effects. I read of overflow: auto; to make a scrollable div. This would be ideal for me if only I was able to set the dimensions of that div as follows: height: height of the viewport; width: width of the viewport - width of the left-side menu; If I use height: 100%; then my scrollable div (which has the longest content on the page) is taken as the reference for the total height of the page. And then, the left-side menu disappears when I scroll down... I could use position: fixed; for the menu, but then we are back to the original problem: when horizontal scrolling is performed, then the menu overlaps the content... I have googled quite extensively (but not enough ?) about viewport dimensions, but I did not find any solution. Has anyone any idea of how I could achieve with CSS stuff only the same effects as with my iframe ? (I would really appreciate to avoid this iframe, because the content needs already two files, plus the - cached - images...) I would like to avoid tables too for pure CSS, but that is another matter, and I guess I should post with another subject... Thanks in advance, Philippe PS: The test page can be found at http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~pcombes/MUMPS_test/test.html It is emacs-made and fully commented because it is ought to be maintained by people who do not know CSS (but with good experience of programming...) So if anyone have time to have a look at it and give some comments, they would be very welcome. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
