Using scroll bars on a web page

[Cloud]

I agree that having scrolling text is not a good idea but if that's what you want then the link provided by gary will put you on the right track.

There is a very recent trend in responsive websites which has no chrome (no headers, no footers, no navigation bars and no borders, etc) and this uses 100% width and 100% height on an image (usually) with text which fits the viewport no matter the display size (ie. responsive text) this way there are no scroll bars at all, but you would still need to have roughly the same amount of text on each page.

I believe you can create a 100% width image and perhaps 100% height as well and then add your text in a scroll box and this would still be effective.

[pauland]

you would still need to have roughly the same amount of text on each page.

I'm not sure I follow that reasoning (or agree with it). Can you explain?

Naturally, there are still scrollbars, but they are for the page, not some text section.

[Cloud]

I don't agree with it either (as I said) just pointing out that if it was to be done how to do it, there are sites out there which have no scroll bars for the page, for instance the main section of this site http://chulakov.com/ or this whole site http://www.yaranyared.com/ , it's nothing new. It's just not something that could be done with xara (probably)

[pauland]

Xara allows for any page size you wish so, you can fit the page size to the content and avoid using vertical scrollbars around any text. The only time that isn't possible is when people are using iFrames to present external content that can vary.

Emma, I hope you'll reconsider the view that web pages need to be of uniform length and check out a few web sites not built with Xara.

I think you'll find two things:

Firstly, the web page sizes vary in length inside the site according to the content they have,
Secondly, you don't really care about the page lengths (or that they are different) on those sites.

Take this page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33546352
and this page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/...4-5c736ed149ce

Both part of BBC news. Nobody cares that one page is longer than the other.

Please consider making the page as long as it needs to be to fit the content.

Paul