How to Use the Horizontal Scroll Bar Controls

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How to Use the Horizontal Scroll Bar Controls

• By Steve OBrien

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Description and example

• Horizontal scroll bars provide easy navigation
  through a long list of items or a large amount of
  information
• You use the horizontal scroll bar by scrolling to
  the left or the right
• Horizontal scroll bars are not the same as built
  in scroll bars found in windows

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Properties

• The scroll bar controls use the scroll and change
  events to monitor the movement of the scroll box
  along the scroll bar
• When the scroll box position is at the minimum
  value it moves to the leftmost position
• When the scroll box is at the maximum value the
  scroll box moves to the rightmost or bottom
  position

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Anti-Horizontal Scroll Bar

• Horizontal scrolling is one of those usability
  nightmares that cause visitors to never come back
  to your web site. Actually, I do not mean a
  horizontal scroll bar of a layer that contains a
  small gallery. That is a special situation.
  Experience has shown that visitors love to scroll
  in galleries to find out what is still
  hidden.(Jolantha Belik)Team Macromedia