This is our Blogger FAQ and Help guide on the questions and issues that are commonly raised by Bloggers as well as the readers of our Blog at Tips for New Bloggers. Here, we shall elaborate on the finer details of the customization tips for your Blog template, give further examples, and answer specific queries. For detailed write-ups and discussions on the topics, please refer to the articles in our main Blog. Before changing any template, please remember to save a copy of the current template. After editing the template, preview it, and save it when you are satisfied with the change.
Blogger FAQ and Help

Header
  • Insert an image to the left of Blog Title and Description [read]
  • Add a Horizontal Navigation Bar in Header Image [read]
  • Unable to remove Header Image [read]

Blog Posts
  • Arrange, customize and shift the Blog Posts and Footer elements [read]
  • Insert a picture or image beside the Blog Post Title [read]
  • How to have standard or pre-formatted text in Blog Posts [read]
  • Add Highlighting to Text and Background Color in Text Box [read]
  • Change Blogger Post URL - SEO Tip [read]
  • Change the Post a Comment Link [read]
  • Add scrollbars to text within Blog Posts [read]

Sidebar
  • Add Background color and image to Sidebar Titles [read]
  • Have different Background colors for each widget [read]
  • Style and Position Sidebar Images [read]

Footer
  • How to align Blog Post Footer elements to the left [read]
  • Move Comments Label to below Post Title [read]

Links and Labels
  • How to add Hover, Mouseover and Rollover effects for links [read]
  • Remove automatic number count in Labels widget [read]
  • Remove link underlines in Blog Posts and/or sidebar [read]
  • Be notified by Blogger when there is a Backlink [read]
  • Change and Edit Labels in Multiple Posts [read]

General
  • How to change Background Colour of TicTac Template [read]
  • How to remove the Pencil or Screwdriver and Wrench icons [read]
  • How to add animated graphics in Blogger Post and Sidebar [read]
  • Add Text Box or HTML textarea code in Blogs [read]
  • Know the limits on our Blogger account [read]
  • How to take Screenshots or Screen captures [read]
  • How to change and transfer Blog ownership [read]
  • Change font size and font styles in template [read]
  • How to center align Page Elements [read]
  • How to insert a separator line between each comment [read]

Search Tricks for New Bloggers

Search World-Wide-Web

We have extended our month-long vacation by a couple of days. We shall be posting articles the moment we return. We noticed that Google had updated the Page Ranks. New bloggers who have been waiting anxiously for this can check their blogs' Page Ranks. We have the PR checker link in our SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization article.

The blog we created recently in Aug 2007, Blogger FAQ and Help, has also got its first Page Rank, a PR4. All our blogs are now ranked:-

Tips for New Bloggers - PR5
Business Fables and Management Lessons - PR5
Famous Motivational and Inspirational Quotes - PR4
Blogger FAQ and Help - PR4

Thanks to everyone for the support!

Oct 6, 2007

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Add Scrollbars to Blog Posts

If you have followed our main article Add Scrollbars to Blog Widgets, you would be able to introduce horizontal and vertical scrollbars to all or any of the widgets in the Blogger template. These scrollbars can be made to automatically appear when the contents overflow a certain specified width or height setting. We have also talked about how scrollbars can be added to the Blog Post body. We shall in this tutorial elaborate on that and let you know how to add the scrollbars within each Blog Post.

Scrollbars to Blog Post body

As we had mentioned in our article, to have the scrollbars to each of the blog posts, once you are logged into Blogger account, go to Template -> Edit HTML and scroll to this code. Add the portion shown in red:-

.post {
height:200px;
overflow:auto;
}


This will give you scrollbars to every post:-

Add Scrollbars to Blog Posts

Scrollbars within Blog Post

Sometimes, you may not want to have the scrollbars to all the blog posts, but only for several paragraphs within a post. Assuming you are writing an article and you wish to enclose some long text within a scrollbox, you have to first define a class within the stylesheet.

For example, we can insert in the stylesheet this code to specify the maximum height and width of the scrollbox. Once the text overflows this setting, scrollbars will automatically appear:-

.scrollbox {
height:100px;
width:400px;
overflow:auto;
}


Save the template. Next, when you are writing a post, switch from the “Compose” mode to the “Edit HTML” mode.



Add these tags (shown in red) before and after the part of the text that you want to enclose within the scrollbox.

<div class="scrollbox">TEXT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE SCROLLBOX.</div>


You can continue typing the post by switching back to the “Compose” mode.

After you are done, when you publish your post, you will see that only the part of the text comprised with the tags will be in a scrollbox, like this:-

Add Scrollbars to Blog Posts

Adjust the size of the scrollbox in the stylesheet accordingly. You can also consider having a HTML text box to enclose certain text.

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10 comments:

Murat Altinbasak said...

I LOVE this scrollbar tip. Thank you!

Rampantheart said...

thanks a lot for sharing this tip!i was looking for this particular one for long!

Jos said...

Great Tips. Thanks! Especially the bit about pre-defining a scroll bar that can then be 'called' in any blog post with the div class=scrollbox -- that is great (and it also made me understand a whole lot more about how the template works!)
Thank you!
-Jos:)

David Reber said...

The post scrollbar is cool and helps with the longer posts. Thanks!

I have set my height to 600px so that any post larger gets the scrollbar. My question is on posts smaller than 600px...how do I default the height to be the post size or 600px whichever is smaller?

With the height set at 600px a post of 300px has space between the posts.

Thanks!

napaboaniya said...

Thanks for all the tips given!!
I've just inserted this scrollbar into my sidebar and blog entries. Really an awesome tip making my blog look less messy :)

Sheena Pimentel said...

How do I place a scroll bar for my comments?

Anu Sonia Risun said...

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dishant said...

i got the scrollbar but only one postdisplys on my blog......can u pls have a look....
www.animateindia.blogspot.com

Muhammad Afandi said...

how come there's no post for some time?

Wake Up!

smiles.

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Posted by señor freud at 10:43 AM , 0 comments

i have searched high and low for this insidious comma but it is elusive indeed. i would very much like to delete it. would you mind pointing me to the proper location in the html so i can eradicate my silent adversary? thank you.

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