I have a webpage and in my html the container holds the sidebars and the content2 I have put a 3columnX8row table instead of a million <div>s I was wondering how I could make the data cells scroll vertically in my css intead of a million <div>s. well actually 12 <div>s.
this may look crazy, but I'm just learning
#container {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Sans-serif;
float: right;
width: 640px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#sidebar-a {
float: right;
width: 120px;
line-height: 18px;
border-left: 1px solid #efefef;
}
#sidebar-a .padding, #sidebar-b .padding, #sidebar-c .padding {
padding: 0;
}
#sidebar-b, #sidebar-c {
clear: right;
float: right;
width: 120px;
line-height: 18px;
border-left: 1px solid #efefef;
}
#content2 {
float: left;
width: 507px;
border-left: 1px solid #efefef;
border-right: 1px solid #efefef;
border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef;
}
#content2 caption {
font-size: 24px;
font-weight: bold;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef;
}
table {
height: auto;
border: collapse;
width: auto;
}
td {
width: 33%;
text-align: center;
border: collapse;
border-left: 1px solid #efefef;
border-right: 1px solid #efefef;
border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef;
}
Might look a little nutty Don't need the answer written out just would like to pointed in the right direction, Thanks

Give the table cell you want to scroll an id, then give it a fixed height, and set overlfow to scroll. Should look something like this:

td#id {
height: 400px;
overflow: scroll;
}

I would also like to coment, that when using div's for layout I rarely use more than 5 or 6. I'm not sure why you think you have to have as many as you believe you do.

Thanks for the reply, appreciate it, I was wondering though if I could set this class to all my td's using the min-height and the max-hieght and the overflow auto? right now my page has 8 <div>s I thought i had to use so many div's for the layout. Thanks again, dave

I bought o'rielly's css definitive guide so I don't have to ask uninformed questions.

You certainly can.

Instead of:
in the above style use:

Then use this for the opening td or div tags, like this:

Thanks midi So I would put in my style sheet:
Thanks man appreciate it

That is correct.