Dreamweaver design view doesn't show the bottom part of a long div

Andy Bay wrote:

 

Hi!

 

Is there any setting that I can change so that Dreamweaver is showing me the whole div bg in all situations? One possible cause of this problem might be also that I'm using overflow:scroll on my content. Could that be why Dreamweaver hides the bottom part and can I change that behaviour?

 

Any ideas are welcome!

Yes.  I can't understand why you would need a div to overflow with a scroll because if your background image is too large then the page will scroll regardless.  Just be careful with absolute positioning though and have a good understanding of CSS rules before going too far with this project or else as the user's resolution changes so does the positions of your text on your background.

If we can see the page in question we could probably do this a lot easier.  But all you need to do in your CSS for the background is:

background: url(pathto/image.jpg) fixed no-repeat;

If you are trying to absolutely position something in the middle you will be unable to do this without the assistance of javascript to determine the useable pixels on the end-users computer.  Horiztonally is not the issue, but rather vertically because you can achieve horizontal centering by defining a width and setting the margin: 0 auto; in your CSS.

As far as working with overflows, if there is too much content in them that you believe the overflow will be necessary (assuming min/max-widths are set) you could consider including the content from another document or store it in a database and query the information out.  Then it would make it easier for the client to update the content on their own in the future.