How To Get A Scrollable Div In Android

i added a div with a lot of data in it, and it works fine on a PC and on the Blackberry, but it doesn't work on Android: The data is retrieved with no problems but the div isn't sc

Solution 1:

If you're trying to do this on a native android application, you're going to have to implement a ScrollView:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ScrollView.html

Solution 2:

I found a creative work-around (that works on Android (2.3.5 Gingerbread) and Firefox browser for Android).

I didn't have the problem reported here on the first site I did but had issues on the second. After finding this answers here I remembered the old site worked so I checked what I did there. Copying over old to new site I was able to fix my problem...

This works on Android/Firefox browser but does not put a scroll bar indicator on screen (but touch-drag scrolls the content down the .

What WORKED for me is dual Tags... EMBED code to scroll in a second tag.

<div style="width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color:#fdc4f6; border: solid 1px #000;">

<div style="overflow:scroll; height:350px; text-align:left; padding: 1em 4em 0 4em;"> [Content will scroll if text overflows div on Android now]

then close DIV tags now the content in the second

may not be the prettiest code or method to use, but it got the job done for me (although I haven't tested in iOS devices).

For what it's worth... -LB-

<div style="width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color:#fdc4f6; border: solid 1px #000;"><div style="overflow:scroll; height:350px; text-align:left; padding: 1em 4em 0 4em;"> [Content will scroll if text overflows div on Android now]</div></div>