Scroll Safari page overflow elements on iPhone

Jul 05, '07 07:30:05AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I was bummed to find out that it didn't appear that I could use one of my favorite web apps, Google Reader. Reader loads just fine, but it places all of the RSS articles into a div element with the overflow attribute set to auto. For non web gurus, this creates a portion of a webpage that can be scrolled, much like a frame within the page. If you try to scroll around in an area like this, it instead scrolls around the entire page.

The good news, is that there is a very easy way to scroll these kinds of areas. Just use two fingers to scroll!

[robg adds: You can occasionally see such elements on macosxhints pages -- I use them to post longer script/code blocks, as in this hint. The two-finger scroll does indeed work as described.]

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Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070702055328223