Question

How do I enable horizontal scrolling in the TWiki sidebar (left frame)? I am using the TreeBrowserPlugin and I have nodes at several levels (upto 4). When I try to dig beyond the 2nd level, my tree view is trunctated and I cannot scroll horizontally too because there is no horizontal scrollbar in the left frame.

Here is a snapshot of my problem:

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/viewfile/Plugins/TreeBrowserPluginDev?rev=1;filename=treeview_truncated.JPG

Environment

-- AlokNarula - 10 Nov 2006

Answer

This property of the left bar is set in with overflow:hidden in style.css:

#patternLeftBar {
   /* Left bar width is defined in viewleftbar.pattern.tmpl */
   float:left;
   display:inline;
   overflow:hidden;
}

In your situation you could change this to overflow:scroll;.

To implement your custom style in a (upgrade) safe manner, read PatternSkinCssCookbook.

-- ArthurClemens - 10 Nov 2006