scroll bar for a table cell

Question

Is there a way to add a scroll bar to a 'td' tag? I have a dynamic content inside a 'td' tag. I want the 'td' to be of fixed size and if the content becomes larger than the 'td' size, I want a scroll bar to appear only on that particular cell. Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Yes you can do that.

The easiest way is to put inside your cell a div filling it and set its overflow style property.

CSS :

div.scrollable {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    overflow: auto;
}

HTML :

<td><div class=scrollable>
    Some content with a scrollbar if it's too big for the cell
</div></td>

If you want the scrollbar to be always visible, even when the content isn't cropped, replace auto with scroll in the CSS.

Demonstration