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ScrollOver

Description:

Boolean value indicating whether a scrolling menu should scroll when the scroll bar is rolled over (true) or clicked (false).

Value:

Boolean (true or false), Integer (1=true, 0=false), or JavaScript expression that returns a boolean value.

Applies To:

Menus.

Browser Compatibility:

ScrollOver is supported in all browsers, and is forced in Opera 7.x versions prior to Opera 7.1.

Comments:

In the earliest Opera 7.x browsers, various problems caused scrolling menus to be unusable when the scroll bars were clicked. ScrollOver was introduced as an alternate method for scrolling menus in that browser. It can also be used in general for any browser should you prefer your menus to scroll when the user rolls over the scroll bar as opposed to clicking the scroll bar.

For a discussion of the early Opera problems with scrolling menus, see Bulletin 1.

Examples:

// Ok:
ScrollOver:true,
ScrollOver:0,
ScrollOver:(window.thisPage=="cf")?1:0, 
    // if the user defined variable "thisPage" is "cf", 
    // ScrollOver is true

// Incorrect:
ScrollOver:"false",  // quotes not allowed around booleans
ScrollOver:"0",
ScrollOver:'(window.thisPage=="cf")?1:0', 
    // no quoted expressions

Default:

false, but forced to true in Opera 7.0x.

See Also:

ScrollEnabled, ScrollInterval, ScrollBarHeight, ScrollBarColor, ScrollImgAltTop, ScrollImgSrcTop, ScrollImgAltBot, ScrollImgSrcBot, ScrollImgWidth, ScrollImgHeight, ScrollBothBars, ScrollHeightMin