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icon5.gif   scrollable text section only when viewing a log entry, posted by Bill Pier on Wed Apr 23 01:55:16 2008 
    icon2.gif   Re: scrollable text section only when viewing a log entry, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Apr 23 07:46:56 2008 
       icon3.gif   Re: scrollable text section only when viewing a log entry, posted by Bill Pier on Thu Apr 24 23:52:45 2008 
          icon2.gif   Re: scrollable text section only when viewing a log entry, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Apr 28 08:00:18 2008 
             icon3.gif   Re: scrollable text section only when viewing a log entry, posted by Bill Pier on Tue May 6 21:28:18 2008 7x
                icon5.gif   Re: scrollable text section only when viewing a log entry, posted by Bill Pier on Thu Feb 19 18:19:12 2009 
                   icon2.gif   Re: scrollable text section only when viewing a log entry, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Feb 20 07:58:52 2009 
Message ID: 65870     Entry time: Tue May 6 21:28:18 2008     In reply to: 65861     Reply to this: 66213
Icon: Idea  Author: Bill Pier  Author Email: bpier@clove.org 
Category: Question  OS: All  ELOG Version: 2.7.3 
Subject: Re: scrollable text section only when viewing a log entry 

IStefan Ritt wrote:

Bill Pier wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Bill Pier wrote:

Is there a way, option, feature to setup the text section only to be scrollable when viewing a log entry, such that the header (meta info) section stays fixed?

Unfortunately no.

Well, I tinkered a bit with a journal entry display page and found that without having to suggest the flavor-of-the-month web design mantra of "replace table layout with CSS only",  just a few CSS tweaks can enable exactly what I am desiring.

For your consideration, here are the tweaks I made to get a fixed header and footer section with a scrollable journal entry section in the middle:

  1. moved the journal entry content and footer line (elog version info) out of the layout table structure, into their own div sections;
  2. in the style sheet, added attribute "position:fixed" to the "frame table" section;
  3. in the style sheet, added attribute sections for journal entry content and footer div sections:
    1. #content: overflow:auto;position:fixed;top:230px;bottom:30px;width:100%;
    2. #footer:  text-align:center;bottom:0;position:fixed;width:100%;

Now as I'm not a web designer by trade and not intimately familiar with CSS nuances, I used the time honored method of documentation lookup with trial and error.

In any case, it worked and displays exactly the way I wanted; please do consider this for a future elog release. 

Apparently you downloaded an ELOG page and modified it manually. Can you send me the modified page, it then would be easier for me to implement it (I can shorten "my" trial and error phase..)

Yes, you are correct, I did simply take a sample page from logs and tinker with the html and css file, with the changes enumerated previously.  I have attached the tweaked sample html elog log page and css file, along with a few of the standard elog png files to complete the page with some semblance of the normal display.

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/* default formatting */
body {
  margin:3px;
  color:black;
  background-color:white;
  font-family:trebuc,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;
  /* background-image:url(elog.gif); */
}

/* standard link colors and decorations */
a:link { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:none }
a:visited { color:#800080; text-decoration:none }
a:hover { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:underline }
a:active { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:underline }
a:focus { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:underline }

td {
  color:black;
  font-size:14px;
}

/* frame table */
.frame {
  width:100%;position:fixed;
}

/* printable frame table */
.pframe {
  width:600px;
}

/* standard formatting for logbook tabs */
.tabs {
  font-family:sans-serif;
  font-size:12pt;
  background-color:white;
}

/* logbook selection page */
.selframe {
  width:60%;
  background-color:#486090; 
  border:1px solid #486090;
  font-size:14pt;
}

.seltitle {
  border:1px solid #0000FF;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#CCCCFF;
  color:#486090;
  text-align:center;
}

.selexp {
  border:1px solid #0000FF;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#CCCCFF;
  color:#486090;
  text-align:left;
  font-size:10pt;
}

.selspace {
  width:2%;
  border:1px solid #308000;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#EEEEEE;
}

.selgroup {
  border:1px solid #308000;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#FFCCFF;
  padding:3px;
  text-align:left;
  font-weight:bold;
  font-size:14pt;
}

.sellogbook {
  border:1px solid #308000;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#DDEEBB;
  padding:3px;
  text-align:left;
  font-weight:bold;
}

.selcomment {
  font-size:10pt;
}

.selentries {
  background-color:#E0E0A0;
  border:1px solid #0000FF;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  text-align:center;
  font-size:12pt;
}

/* unselected and selected group tabs */

.gtab a {
  background-color:#B0E0B0;
  padding-left:5px;
  padding-right:5px;
}

.gtab {
  background-color:#B0E0B0;
  border-right:1px solid #409040;
}

.sgtab a {
  color:white;
  padding-left:5px;
  padding-right:5px;
}

.sgtab {
  background-color:#486090;
  color:white;
  border-right:1px solid #084070;
}

.sgtab a:visited { color:white; } /* bug for IE */

/* unselected and selected logbook tabs */

.ltab a {
  background-color:#E0E0E0;
  padding-left:5px;
  padding-right:5px;
}

.ltab {
  background-color:#E0E0E0;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  border-right:1px solid gray;
}

.sltab a {
  background-color:#486090;
  color:white;
  padding-left:5px;
  padding-right:5px;
}

.sltab {
  background-color:#486090;
  color:white;
  border-left:1px solid #E0E0E0;
  border-right:1px solid #084070;
}

.sltab a:visited { color:white; } /* bug for IE */

/* logbook title, left, middle and right cell */

.title1 {
  padding:5px;
  background-color:#486090;
  border-bottom:1px solid black;
  border-left:1px solid #E0E0E0;
  color:white;
  font-size:medium;
  font-family:sans-serif;
  text-align:left;
}

.title1 a:visited { color:#A0FFA0; }
.title1 a:link { color:#A0FFA0; }

.title2 {
  background-color:#486090;
  border-bottom:1px solid black;
  color:white;
  font-size:medium;
  font-family:sans-serif;
  text-align:center;
}

.title3 {
  border-bottom:1px solid black;
  border-right:1px solid black;
  background-color:#486090;
  text-align:right;
  width:100px;
}

/* main menu row */

.menuframe {
  border:1px solid #486090;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#E0E0E0;
}

.menu1 {
  text-align:left;
  font-size:12pt;
}

.menu1a {
  text-align:right;
  font-size:10pt;
  font-weight:bold;
}

.menu2a {
  text-align:left;
  font-size:10pt;
}

.menu2b {
  text-align:right;
  font-size:10pt;
}

.menu3 {
  text-align:left;
  font-size:8pt;
  font-weight:bold;
}

.menu4 {
  text-align:right;
  font-size:10pt;
  vertical-align:middle;
}

.menucenter {
  border:1px solid #486090;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#E0E0E0;
  text-align:center;
  font-size:10pt;
}

.toolframe {
  border:1px solid #486090;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#E0E0E0;
  padding:2px;
}

/* frame table in listings */
.listframe {
  border:1px solid #0000FF;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1pc solid white;
  background-color:#486090;
  border:0px;
}

/* title row in listing */
.listtitle {
  border:1px solid #0000FF;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#CCCCFF;
  text-align:center;
}

/* odd and even lines in message listing */

.list1 {
  border:1px solid #308000;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#DDEEBB;
  text-align:center;
}

.list2 {
  border:1px solid #808040;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#FFFFB0;
  text-align:center;
}

.list1h {
  border:1px solid #308000;
  border-top:1px solid white;
  border-left:1px solid white;
  background-color:#DDEEBB;
  text-align:center;
  font-weight:bold;
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