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How do i bring scrolling focus to a scrolling DIV?

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Sep 10.2004

My question concerns an absolutely positioned, scrolling DIV area on a page, such as the following:

<div style=”height:5em; width:5em; position:absolute; top:50%; left:50%; overflow:scroll”>
blah blah blah blah blablablablablablablah blah blah blah blah blablablablablablablah blah blah blah blah blablablablablablablah blah blah blah blah blablablablablablablah
</div>

When I position the mouse over this DIV, I want the content within it (not the whole page) to scroll when I use the mouse wheel. (This effect happens by default in Internet Explorer, but in other browsers I have to move the DIV’s scrollbar to make the content scroll; the mouse wheel always scrolls the whole page even if I click inside the DIV. I don’t want that.)

I tried

<div onmouseover=”this.focus()”>

but that did not work.

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@JonaSep 10.2004 — [font=trebuchet ms]Try taking absolute positioning off. Scrolling has never faired well with absolute positioning.[/font]
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@oswaldauthorSep 10.2004 — Thanks Jona... but the problem is the same even without the absolute positioning.

On the other hand, I find that if I put a link inside the DIV, like so:

<div style="height:5em; width:5em; position:absolute; top:50%; left:50%; overflow:scroll">

<a href="." onmouseover="this.focus()">link</a>

blah blah blah blah blablablablablablablah blah blah blah blah blablablablablablablah blah blah blah blah blablablablablablablah blah blah blah blah blablablablablablablah

</div>

then placing the mouse pointer over the link will activate mouse-wheel scrolling inside the DIV. But I want the scrolling to work without doing that.
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@JonaSep 10.2004 — [font=trebuchet ms]Hmm, sorry I don't know of any way to set focus to a DIV element. You could try the [/font][font=courier new]focus()[/font][font=trebuchet ms] method, but if that doesn't work it's all the browsers' faults. ? [/font]
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